First introduced in MySQL 5.7.8, the JSON data type is a specialized binary column type, similar to a blob , but with added machinery to optimize the storage and retrieval of values from a column typed as json .Javascript Object Notation or more commonly known as JSON, is a  modern format for the exchange of data with the servers. It is more or less similar to XML, but the advantage of this format is that it is in a lightweight form. Web programmers and other software engineers are preferring to use JSON due to multiple reasons. It is because the…