BSON stands for Binary JSON which is a serialization format for binary-encoding JSON-like documents. BSON was developed at MongoDB in the year 2009 and is primarily used internally for storing documents. BSON also supports data types that are not natively supported by JSON and this makes MongoDB query language rich in a large number of data types. BSON is similar to Google's Protocol Buffers which also serialize and deserialize the data. Unlike Protocol Buffers, BSON does not