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MongoDB vs Redis

A side-by-side look at MongoDB and Redis. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

MongoDB

MongoDB

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MongoDB is a popular open-source, document-oriented NoSQL database. It stores data in flexible, JSON-like documents, rather than rows and columns used in traditional RDBMS. MongoDB is scalable, high-performance and easy to use.

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Redis

Redis

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Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker. It supports data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes and streams.

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