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MongoDB with C

Build performant applications in MongoDB's Atlas cloud database with the support of MongoDB's C driver.

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The MongoDB C Driver consists of two libraries, libbson and libmongoc. The libbson library supports working with BSON documents, and the libmongoc library comprises the driver, which connects your C application to MongoDB.

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libbson

Provides an API to support building, parsing, and converting BSON documents, the native data format of MongoDB.

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libmongoc

Provides an API for working with MongoDB databases consistent with other MongoDB language drivers.

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