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MongoDB

MongoDB is an open-source NoSQL database

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MongoDB is an open-source document-oriented database that is designed to store a large scale of data and also allows you to work with that data very efficiently. It is categorized under the NoSQL (Not only SQL) database because the storage and retrieval of data in the MongoDB are not in the form of tables.

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Key features

  • Flexible JSON document model
  • Aggregation pipeline
  • Replica sets and sharding
  • Rich driver ecosystem

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Flexible document model
  • Horizontal scaling support
  • Huge ecosystem

Trade-offs

  • SSPL license restrictions
  • Memory hungry

Is MongoDB secure?

OSV.dev lists 177 published advisories for MongoDB. It doesn't publish GitHub releases we can match, so we can't say which of them apply to the current version. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-89099, published 2026-09-11 (33 days ago), fixed in 7.0.43, 8.0.32, 8.3.11

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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