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MongoDB Cookbook - Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Amol Nayak
Book Image

MongoDB Cookbook - Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Amol Nayak

Overview of this book

MongoDB is a high-performance and feature-rich NoSQL database that forms the backbone of the systems that power many different organizations – it’s easy to see why it’s the most popular NoSQL database on the market. Packed with many features that have become essential for many different types of software professionals and incredibly easy to use, this cookbook contains many solutions to the everyday challenges of MongoDB, as well as guidance on effective techniques to extend your skills and capabilities. This book starts with how to initialize the server in three different modes with various configurations. You will then be introduced to programming language drivers in both Java and Python. A new feature in MongoDB 3 is that you can connect to a single node using Python, set to make MongoDB even more popular with anyone working with Python. You will then learn a range of further topics including advanced query operations, monitoring and backup using MMS, as well as some very useful administration recipes including SCRAM-SHA-1 Authentication. Beyond that, you will also find recipes on cloud deployment, including guidance on how to work with Docker containers alongside MongoDB, integrating the database with Hadoop, and tips for improving developer productivity. Created as both an accessible tutorial and an easy to use resource, on hand whenever you need to solve a problem, MongoDB Cookbook will help you handle everything from administration to automation with MongoDB more effectively than ever before.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
MongoDB Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


So far, we have executed the majority of operations in the shell using Mongo. The Mongo shell is a great tool for administrators to perform administrative tasks and for developers who would like to quickly test things by querying the data before coding the logic in the application. However, how do we write application code that will allow us to query, insert, update, and delete (among other things) the data in MongoDB? There has to be a library for the programming language that we write our application in. We should be able to instantiate something or invoke methods from the program to perform some operations on the remote Mongo process.

How would this happen unless there is some bridge that understands the protocol of communication with the remote server and is able to transmit the operation over the wire that we require in order to execute on the Mongo server process and get the result back to the client. This bridge, simply put, is called the driver, also referred to as client...