BSON
BSON is a binary-encoded serialization format for JSON-like documents and values, with support for additional data types such as dates and binary data.
MongoDB 8.0 in Action, Third Edition
BSON is a binary serialization format for documents that extends JSON-like data with additional types such as dates and binary data.
- How it is used
- Stores MongoDB records as JSON-like documents while supporting types such as dates and binary data.
- How deep it goes
- Defines BSON, illustrates document values, and gives the 16 MB limit; does not detail the binary encoding.
- Examples
- Shows a `findOne()` result containing an ObjectId and an array of assessment documents.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate/understand MongoDB document values and the 16 MB constraint when designing stored records.
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The Quick Python Book, Fourth Edition
BSON is a binary-encoded data serialization format used by MongoDB for storing document data.
- How it is used
- Stores MongoDB documents for scalable, distributed data with flexible or unstable schemas.
- How deep it goes
- Defines BSON through document shape and demonstrates CRUD operations, but does not explain its binary encoding internals.
- Examples
- Uses a person document with scalar fields, an interests array, a datetime, an ObjectId, and CRUD operations.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure MongoDB documents through PyMongo by inserting, querying, updating, replacing, and deleting BSON-backed records.
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Related concepts
- MongoDBused by · MongoDB is a document-oriented database management system that stores data as BSON documents, typically organized into collections.
- mongorestoreused by · mongorestore is a MongoDB Database Tools utility that restores data from BSON dump archives into a MongoDB database.
- pymongoused by · PyMongo is the official Python driver for connecting applications to MongoDB and performing database operations.
- MongoDB driverused by · A MongoDB driver is a language-specific client library that connects applications to MongoDB and provides database operations.
- document-oriented data modelused by · A document-oriented data model represents records as self-contained documents that can have flexible, nested, or variable fields rather than fixed relational rows.
- JSONkind of · JSON is a standardized, language-independent text format for representing structured data using objects, arrays, strings, numbers, Boolean values, and null.
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