Database Reference
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1.
Horizontally scalable
. MongoDB was designed to scale out. Documents are rel-
atively easy to partition across multiple servers. MongoDB can automatically bal-
ance data across servers and redistribute documents, automatically routing user re-
quests to the correct machines. When more capacity is needed, new machines can
be added, and MongoDB will figure out how the existing data should be allocated
to them. This figure illustrates the systems architecture difference:
