MongoDB - NoSQL Document Store Database

MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source, dynamic-schema, document-oriented database. MongoDB bridges the gap between key-value stores (which are fast and highly scalable) and traditional RDBMS systems. MongoDB runs well on Amazon EC2. MongoDB uses BSON as the data storage and network transfer format for "documents". BSON is a binary encoded serialization of JSON-like documents. MongoDB could be accessed from programming language C, C++, Java, PHP, Python and Ruby.

It supports:

• DBA operations from the shell
• Sharding
• Replication
• Security
• Backup
• Database Profiler
• Full Text Search