Its very difficult to explain why you would use MongoDB and why its becoming so popular. The best way to learn it though is to do a project with it. Im actual

Its very difficult to explain why you would use MongoDB and why its becoming so popular. The best way to learn it though is to do a project with it. Im actually working on a few right now, mostly games, and would be open to having you involved. If youre not into that then just read the mongodb books and understand what it is. Also learn what couchdb, riak, and membase are and why they are different since they are all "nosql" datastores but are very different from each other. Also a good way to learn it which is how i learned it is to learn jquery/ajax and specifically developing the json api that it will call and use. Once you understand json and key value pairs then why mongodb is so great will become apparent.