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Amit Phaltankar

Juned Ahsan

Michael Harrison

Liviu Nedov

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MongoDB Data Types

You have learned how MongoDB stores JSON-like documents. You have also seen various documents and read the information stored within them and seen how flexible these documents are to store different types of data structures, irrespective of the complexity of your data.

In this section, you will learn about the various data types supported by MongoDB's BSON documents. Using the right data types in your documents is very important as correct data types help you use the database features more effectively, avoid data corruption, and improve data usability. MongoDB supports all the data types from JSON and BSON. Let's look at each in detail, with examples.

Strings

A string is a basic data type used to represent text-based fields in a document. It is a plain sequence of characters. In MongoDB, the string fields are UTF-8 encoded, and thus they support most international characters. The MongoDB drivers for various programming languages convert the string...

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Authors (4)

Amit Phaltankar

Amit Phaltankar is a software developer and a blogger experienced in building lightweight and efficient software components. He specializes in wiring web-based applications and handling large-scale data sets using traditional SQL, NoSQL, and big data technologies. He is experienced in many technology stacks and loves learning and adapting to newer technology trends. Amit is passionate about improving his skill set and loves guiding and grooming his peers and contributing to blogs. He is also an author of MongoDB Fundamentals.
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Juned Ahsan

Juned Ahsan is a software professional with more than 14 years of experience. He has built software products and services for companies and clients such as Cisco, Nuamedia, IBM, Nokia, Telstra, Optus, Pizzahut, AT&T, Hughes, Altran, and others. Juned has a vast experience in building software products and architecting platforms of different sizes from scratch. He loves to help and mentor others and is a top 1% contributor on StackOverflow. He is passionate about cognitive CX, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and NoSQL databases.
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Michael Harrison

Michael Harrison started his career at the Australian telecommunications leader Telstra. He worked across their networks, big data, and automation teams. He is now a lead software developer and the founding member of Southbank Software, a Melbourne based startup that builds tools for the next generation of database technologies.
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Liviu Nedov

Liviu Nedov is a senior consultant with more than 20 years of experience in database technologies. He has provided professional and consulting services to customers in Australia and Europe. Throughout his career, he has designed and implemented large enterprise projects for customers like Wotif Group, Xstrata Copper/Glencore, and the University of Newcastle and Energy, Queensland. He is currently working at Data Intensity, which is the largest multi-cloud service provider for applications, databases, and business intelligence. In recent years, he is actively involved in MongoDB NoSQL database projects, database migrations, and cloud DBaaS (Database as a Service) projects.
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