What is BSON type

What is BSON type

Ishoo Anyal

What is BSON type in MongoDB

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BSON means binary Json (only machine can understand gives faster parsing)

	JSON	BSON
Encoding	UTF-8 String	Binary
Data Support	String, Boolean, Number, Array	String, Boolean, Number (Integer, Float, Long, Decimal128...), Array, Date, Raw Binary
Readability	Human and Machine	Machine Only

Varun Setia5y ago
Here is full article with indepth comparison between json and bson https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/difference-between-json-and-bson/
Sagar Lad5y ago
Hi Ishoo,

BSON is a binary serialization format used to store documents and make remote procedure calls in MongoDB. The BSON specification is located at bsonspec.org