We are in 2022, and it is the most used NoSQL database. In 2019, MongoDB had a market share of 24.6% in the database. You need MongoDB when you build a system that needs to support a massive amount of readers in the database you need to scale your database horizontally with the growth you want to store data where model restriction doesn't exist.
It allows manipulating structured objects in a BSON (binary JSON) format without a predetermined schema. MongoDB is a Document Object-Oriented database belonging to the NoSQL databases category. Photo by Barefoot Communications on Unsplash