MongoDB: How to get up and running in less than 5 minutes (on Windows)

MongoDB is a “NoSQL” (non-relational) data store of documents that have no predefined schema, where data is stored as a series of JSON objects. The concept of the relational database where there is a database that has tables which are made up of columns and rows, is replaced by the MongoDB concept of a database … Continue reading MongoDB: How to get up and running in less than 5 minutes (on Windows)

Python: How to read and write JSON

JSONĀ is a lightweight data-interchange format that stands for JavaScript Object Notation. It so happens that JavaScript objects look exactly like Python dictionaries, so JSON objects can be thought of as portable dictionaries of key-value pairs. This portability is what makes JSON so valuable. While JSON objects can be identical to Python dictionaries, there are some … Continue reading Python: How to read and write JSON