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title: "What are collections and documents in MongoDB? How do they compare to tables and rows in SQL?"  
description: "What are collections and documents in MongoDB? How do they compare to tables and rows in SQL?"  
author: "Anubhav Sharma"  
published: 2026-08-03  
updated: 2026-08-03  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/117000/what-are-collections-and-documents-in-mongodb-how-do-they-compare-to-tables-and-rows-in-sql  
category: "database"  
tags: ["database", "rdbms"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What are collections and documents in MongoDB? How do they compare to tables and rows in SQL?

## What are collections and documents in MongoDB? How do they compare to tables and rows in SQL?


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