1) THANKS, Mike, for the mongodb plugin! Up and running in minutes. 2) RockMongo is, for me, much better than phpMoAdmin. 3) Performance wise inserting 100,000 random contant-length numbers mysql slightly faster. Inserting varying length words exploded from Dicken's Christmas Corol (27K words), mongo was 10 times slower! Dumping 100,000 contant-length numbers mongo is 10 times faster than mysql. Dumping 27,000 varying length words mongo is 2 times faster than mysql. Anyone else have some data? 4) I have been unsuccessfully googling SMALL image file insert methods. I do not want to use GridFS. Any suggestions?