What are the advantages and disadvantages of using MongoDB?

Advantages:

• Scalability: MongoDB scales horizontally through sharding, which can handle large

datasets across distributed clusters.

• Flexibility: Schema-less design allows for dynamic data models and easier iteration

during development.

• Performance: It can perform high-throughput reads and writes for large datasets.
• High Availability: Through replica sets, MongoDB ensures data availability and fault

tolerance.

Disadvantages:

• Consistency: By default, MongoDB uses eventual consistency, which may not be

suitable for all applications (though it supports ACID transactions in some cases).

• Complexity in Transactions: While MongoDB now supports multi-document

transactions, working with them is more complex compared to SQL.

• Data Duplication: The flexibility can sometimes lead to data duplication and

inconsistency if not properly managed.