Bson – Binary JSON

BSON, short for Bin­ary JSON, is a bin­ary-en­coded seri­al­iz­a­tion of JSON-like doc­u­ments. Like JSON, BSON sup­ports the em­bed­ding of doc­u­ments and ar­rays with­in oth­er doc­u­ments and ar­rays.

BSON is used by MongoDB to represent its document-oriented database structure.

Related Links:

1) BSON – http://bsonspec.org
2) MongoDB – http://mongodb.org

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Jebsen & Jessen Comms Singapore INTI University College Bsc (Hon) of Computer Science, Coventry University View all posts by fyhao