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In the previous chapter, you saw that MongoDB is a document-based database system where the documents can have a flexible schema. This means that documents within a collection can have different (or same) sets of fields. This affords you more flexibility when dealing with data.
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Edward, S.G., Sabharwal, N. (2015). The MongoDB Data Model. In: Practical MongoDB. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0647-8_4
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