This document discusses NoSQL databases and provides an example of using MongoDB to calculate a total sum from documents. Key points:
- MongoDB is a document-oriented NoSQL database where data is stored in JSON-like documents within collections. It uses map-reduce functions to perform aggregations.
- The example shows saving ticket documents with an ID and checkout amount to the tickets collection.
- A map-reduce operation is run to emit the checkout amount from each document. These are summed by the reduce function to calculate a total of 430 across all documents.