The term "rows" could certainly be replaced with "tuples", "objects", or whatever else you prefer without changing any meaning of the post. If you look at the b

The term "rows" could certainly be replaced with "tuples", "objects", or whatever else you prefer without changing any meaning of the post. If you look at the benchmarks posted on Mongo's site http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Benchmarks http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Benchmarks you can see that most of them compare Mongo against MySQL. Certainly "rows" are being inserted into the latter.