MongoDB for Developers with Python Transcripts
Chapter: Welcome to the course
Lecture: MongoDB is loved
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Which one happens to be the most popular, the most widely used? Well, you can guess, it's probably MongoDB, given this course, right.
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However, you probably didn't guess how much more popular MongoDB is relative to its other NoSQL friends. So we've got CouchDB, this orange one,
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which is way down there, and sort of not even trending; well, we've got RavenDB which is basically not used,
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Cassandra, which kind of peaked around 2016, is heading down. We got MongoDB just much, much more popular than these,
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if you want to experiment or play around with this data yourself, you can check out the link at the bottom. So MongoDB is really, really popular,
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it's by far the most popular, widely used document database. It's also really loved, so one of my favorite places
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to get insight into to the developer community is Stack Overflow's yearly survey; so on the 2017 yearly survey, you can see
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MongoDB appears very high up the rank for most loved technology, and if you look at the little description at the bottom,
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this represents the number of developers who are currently using the technology and really enjoy working with it.
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So MongoDB is right up there, among all at the top. Now, what about wanted? In fact, MongoDB just dominates the wanted category,
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so this is people who are not currently using MongoDB or currently using whatever technology is listed here, but they wish they were, right.
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So MongoDB is definitely highly, highly desired for the people who are not using it, and very much loved by the people who are.