As .NET Developers, we are mostly accustomed to working with ADO.NET or ORM to access data in relational systems, where we map objects to columns and use SQL to query our data. In NoSQL and Document Databases things are different. Mappings and Queries are gone. Data is stored as is and retrieved via Map/Query functions.
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