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MySQL is a relational database. All data stored in it is organized into tables, columns, and rows. It’s quite similar to a series of spreadsheets. The structure enforced by the schema of a MySQL database can have advantages when dealing with certain types of data. In general, structured databases like MySQL are considered the ‘default’ and databases like MongoDB are used in the case of dealing with the limitations of a structured database. They’re also more appropriate for rigid data that requires strict consistency and accountability, like financial applications or anything that requires strict adherence to a structure or some sort of compliance

MongoDB is a NoSQL JSON document database. This allows flexibility in structure and may offer ways to set up the infrastructure around it to scale more easily than a structured database. It’s great for things like user generated content like blogs, location based applications, rapid prototyping applications where you are not sure of the final data structure, and large data analytics.

In terms of scaling, MySQL is vertically scalable, meaning the performance of a single node must be increased to increase the scalability of the database. It is possible to replicate the database across multiple nodes to scale it horizontally, but it’s a complex process when it comes to keeping writes up to date and generally requires higher performance individual nodes.

MongoDB is horizontally scalable. It can easily be sharded across a ton of nodes allowing it to handle extremely high data loads, both read and write operations, more easily.

MongoDB is ideal for use cases where data is generated continuously at high volumes. Here’s what makes it ideal for analyzing that data:

Flexible Schema

Being unstructured, it allows for more complex and importantly dynamic data structures, making it ideal for anything where the data structures may evolve over time. It stores data in a similar format to JSON called BSON, which makes it very easy to work with.

Aggregation Framework

The Aggregation Framework allows developers to perform complex queries and transformations on data, similar to SQL’s GROUP BY and JOIN operations, making it possible to generate valuable insights on the fly. Key operations include $match, $group, $sort, and $project, which can filter, group, and transform data efficiently. Real-time analytics applications can use this framework to perform tasks such as calculating average metrics, generating time-series data, and filtering large datasets for specific events.

In-Memory Storage

MongoDB’s in-memory storage engine provides ultra-fast read and write performance by keeping data in memory rather than on disk. This is beneficial for applications with minimal latency requirements, but that also helps real-time analytics, where response times need to be and high volumes of data operations may happen just for the analytics themselves and not the actual function of the database.

Change Streams

MongoDB’s Change Streams do what they say on the box- stream changes. Monitor insertion, deletions, and updates as they happen and notify any analytics application you have running on top of what data has been updated, which is crucial for real-time analytics. This is especially useful for something like a real-time visual dashboard.

Complex Indexing Features

MongoDB has a lot of options for indexing data (including compound indexing) to speed up performance for commonly used queries for your analytics application.