A Comparison Between MongoDB and MySQL Document Store Considering Performance

Abstract: Databases are an important part of today’s applications where data has to be stored and accessed quickly. One of the important criteria when choosing what database technology to use is performance, where you want the operations to be as fast as possible. In April 2016 Oracle released a alternative way of working with MySQL as a document store. This creates an opportunity to compare it to MongoDB which is one of the most popular document store databases. The comparison was performed by testing different operations on the databases and comparing the resulting time it took. The result showed that MongoDB was faster in every test case for every operation.