Getting Started With MongoDB and ASP.Net MVC4: Day 2

This article takes you a step further in getting started with MongoDB and ASP.NET series. Today, we will learn how to perform basic CRUD operations in MongoDB using Mongo Shell and a little about MongoDB C# Driver organization. The first two articles in this series are basically focused on MongoDB installation and how to use … Read more

What is BSON?

BSON (or Binary JSON) is a binary encoding of JSON-like documents that MongoDB uses to store information in documents. It adds support for Date and binary (BinData) data type that aren’t supported in JSON.BSON was designed to have the following three characteristics: Lightweight: Keeping spatial overhead to a minimum is important for any data representation … Read more