Just noticed this little gem on a 10Gen course, about the respective names of the CRUD operations in common practice, versus the equivalent operations in SQL and in MongoDB. Links point to Wikipedia for SQL and the relevant MongoDB documentation page for the MongoDB column.
| Theory | SQL | MongoDB |
|---|---|---|
| Create | INSERT | insert() |
| Retrieve | SELECT | find() |
| Update | UPDATE | update() |
| Delete | DELETE | remove() |
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