He talks about populating MongoDB with "rows". No one should be using (or benchmarking) a technology unless they understand what it actually is, and what problems it aims to solve.
The term "rows" could certainly be replaced with "tuples", "objects", or whatever else you prefer without changing any meaning of the post. If you look at the benchmarks posted on Mongo's site
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He talks about populating MongoDB with "rows". No one should be using (or benchmarking) a technology unless they understand what it actually is, and what problems it aims to solve.
The term "rows" could certainly be replaced with "tuples", "objects", or whatever else you prefer without changing any meaning of the post. If you look at the benchmarks posted on Mongo's site
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Benchmarks
you can see that most of them compare Mongo against MySQL. Certainly "rows" are being inserted into the latter.