Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) and (NASDAQ: MDB) represent two different ways to invest in the growing cloud market. Salesforce is the world's largest provider of cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) services, and it provides additional marketing, e-commerce, analytics, and enterprise collaboration services. MongoDB helps companies organize their unstructured data with its database services.

Over the past five years, Salesforce's stock has risen about 60% as MongoDB's stock rallied more than 90%. Let's see why the smaller database provider outperformed the CRM leader -- and if that trend will continue for the foreseeable future.

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