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Re:Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago by taligent on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @10:00PM (#4667165)
MongoDB is a JSON document store. Almost all other NoSQL are key/value type stores.

If you have a use case that centres around storing document style data then MongoDB will be better suited.

Re:Things I wish I knew about MongoDB a year ago by trustfundbaby on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @11:12PM (#4667319)
not to be persnickety but its a BSON document store. Theres a difference.