High-level technology overview of MongoDB 4.x

When it was first introduced in 2009, MongoDB took the database world by storm, and since that time it has rapidly gained in popularity. According to the 2019 StackOverflow developer survey (https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-databases), MongoDB is ranked fifth, with 26% of professional developers and 25.5% of all respondents saying they use MongoDB. DB-Engines (https://db-engines.com/en/ranking) also ranks MongoDB as the fifth most widely used database, using an algorithm that takes into account the frequency of search, DBA Stack Exchange and StackOverflow references, and the frequency with which MongoDB appears in job postings. What is of even more interest is that the trend graph generated by DB-Engines shows that the score (and therefore ranking) of MongoDB has grown by 200% since 2013. You can refer to https://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend for more details.  In 2013, MongoDB was not even in the...