What are the advantages and disadvantages of the MongoDB database?

Advantages of MongoDB:

• Flexible data schema: documents are stored in BSON format (similar to JSON), allowing easy modifications to data structure without complex migrations.
• High scalability: supports sharding and replication for distributed systems.
• Good performance for operations with large volumes of data and fast read/write speeds.
• Easy integration with Node.js and other languages through drivers and ORM (e.g., Mongoose).

Disadvantages of MongoDB:

• Lack of multi-document transactions (although recent versions support multi-step transactions with limitations).
• Absence of a strict schema can lead to unstructured data and errors if the structure is not controlled at the application level.
• Not suitable for complex relational queries and data relationships, where SQL databases are preferable.
• Consumes more memory and resources compared to some relational DBMSs.