Everything You Know About MongoDB is Wrong

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MongoDB is a clustered, BSON-native database (not JSON) that requires minimum three nodes for reliable primary elections, rewrote its storage engine since the 2.4 era and adds roughly one major release per year. It supports ACID snapshot isolation with multi-document transactions (including sharded clusters), offers an aggregation pipeline with $lookup for relationships, and provides Atlas for autoscaling, backups, full‑text search and serverless functions. Defaults now enforce authentication and single-document updates are atomic.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:45Two dogs have an argument
3. 1:37MongoDB overview
4. 4:11MongoDB is a JSON database
5. 5:01MongoDB doesnt support transactions
6. 6:27MongoDB doesnt support sharding
7. 7:38MongoDB is insecure
8. 8:32MongoDB loses data
9. 9:08MongoDB is easy

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