Mongodb is a high-performance, open source, schema-free document-oriented data store that's easy to deploy, manage and use. it's network accessible, written in c++ and offers the following features:

* collection oriented storage - easy storage of object-style data
* full index support, including on inner objects
* query profiling
* replication and fail-over support
* efficient storage of binary data including large objects (e.g. videos)
* auto-sharding for cloud-level scalability
high performance, scalability, and reasonable depth of functionality are the goals for the project.

this package contains the development headers and libraries.