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MongoDB 1.6 is a major release addressing the scaling-out issue through sharding and adding replica sets for automatic failover and recovery.

To this end, the MongoDB team has planned various changes to sharding, which should contribute to greater scalability. For example, developers can use config shards from version 8.0 onwards.

Genghis, phpMoAdmin, RockMongo, and UMongo free MongoDB database management from the command line MongoDB is certainly one of the most popular open source, document-oriented NoSQL databases.