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MongoDB isn't an application server. It's a database engine.

• pjmlp 13y ago
  It is an application that makes use of a database engine, exposing data access services, either locally or via the network as a server.
  • beat 13y ago
    Maybe I'm being pedantic, but to me, an application server is something that you write programs for in a general-purpose programming language - that's how databases (where code is written in sql or something similar) don't qualify. Programs that run within application servers are written in langauges like Java and C#. To my knowledge, there are no app servers designed to run code written in C++. Certainly, none that are mainstream.
    • pjmlp 13y ago
      Is IIS mainstream enough then? http://www.iis.net/learn/develop/runtime-extensibility/develop-a-native-cc-module-for-iis http://www.iis.net/learn/develop/runtime-extensibility/devel...