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MongoDB Cookbook

By : Amol Nayak
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MongoDB Cookbook

By: Amol Nayak

Overview of this book

<p>MongoDB is a high-performance and feature-rich NoSQL database that forms the backbone of numerous complex development systems. You will certainly find the MongoDB solution you are searching for in this book.</p> <p>Starting with how to initialize the server in three different modes with various configurations, you will then learn a variety of skills including the basics of advanced query operations and features in MongoDB and monitoring and backup using MMS. From there, you can delve into recipes on cloud deployment, integration with Hadoop, and improving developer productivity. By the end of this book, you will have a clear idea about how to design, develop, and deploy MongoDB.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
MongoDB Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

MapReduce in Mongo using PyMongo


In the previous recipe, we saw how to execute aggregation operations in Mongo using PyMongo. In this recipe, we will work on the same use case as we did for the aggregation operation, but using MapReduce. The intent is to aggregate the data based on state names and get the top five state names by the number of documents they appear in.

Programming language drivers provide us with an interface to let us invoke MapReduce jobs written in JavaScript on the server.

Getting ready

To execute the MapReduce operations, we need to have a server up and running. A simple single node is what we will need. Refer to the Single node installation of MongoDB recipe in Chapter 1, Installing and Starting the MongoDB Server, to learn how to start the server. The data on which we will be operating needs to be imported in the database. The steps to import the data are given in the Creating test data recipe in Chapter 2, Command-line Operations and Indexes. Python is expected to be...