It has been nearly three years since the term 'NoSQL' was coined and since then it contributed to shape the idea of a set of new technologies that soon conquered the mind(and heart :) of many developers. The good ol' relational model has been replaced with new solutions and methods that helped to formulate a whole new kind of approach to database design and data persistence. Better performances and scalability were the two requirements that drove to this little revolution: almost nobody could tell to have never heard of tools like CouchDB, Redis, Hadoop or BerkeleyDB. MongoDB is part of the family, too: during this session we will take a look at its strengths and weaknesses, together with the tools and techniques to use to integrate it with Drupal.