Antoine Girbal's Corner: How to use MongoDB as a pure in-memory DB (Redis style)
The idea
There has been a growing interest in using MongoDB as an in-memory database, meaning that the data is not stored on disk at all. This can be super useful for applications like:
- a write-heavy cache in front of a slower RDBMS system
- embedded systems
- PCI compliant systems where no data…




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