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Mongo is very good at providing information on itself -- such as connections, counters for inserts, available connections, etc. There statistics are available through the admin database using the Mongo command line interface.

MongoDB is a NoSQL database that can use indexes to speed particular ad-hoc searches. You can add an index to a particular MongoDB field very easily from PHP.

MongoDB opens up a whole new level of opportunities for the PHP developer. Once you have the Mongo database setup and the Mongo PHP driver installed and activated, you need to write code to make a connection to the Mongo database. In PHP connecting to Mongo is as simple as connecting to a MySQL server.