{"id":6410,"date":"2020-12-18T18:34:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T18:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/?p=6410"},"modified":"2023-02-24T13:55:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T08:25:34","slug":"mongodb-vs-mongoose-which-to-use-and-when-to-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/devsecops\/mongodb-vs-mongoose-which-to-use-and-when-to-use\/","title":{"rendered":"MongoDB vs Mongoose: Which to use and when to use."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In my few years of code writing and applications building, I have come across various cases and uses of both MongoDB driver and Mongoose. In this article I\u2019ll focus on using Node.js as the backend.<\/p>

So what is MongoDB, MongoDB is a document modelled database that have come to be widely accepted in the tech community as a whole. Its use cases are numerous but still distinct from other types of database like relational databases (SQL, Postgresql), graph databases like dgraph, etc. Because of it\u2019s nature of being non-relational MongoDB generally do not enforce schemas which made it a little weird at first for programmers coming from sql or similar to sql backgrounds. Thus the need for Object Data Modelling , and that\u2019s when Mongoose came in as an ODM library for MongoDB to help enforce Schemas.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Using Schemas<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Schemas are very helpful for strict data type being enforced, maintenance of structure and easy to relate to sql databases. So let\u2019s see some use cases where we see the need for schemas.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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