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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


Though explaining cloud computing is not in the scope for this book, I will explain it in just one paragraph. Any business, big or small, needs hardware infrastructure with different software installed on it. An operating system is the basic software needed along with different servers (from the software perspective) for storage, mail, web, database, DNS, and so on. The list of software frameworks/platforms that are needed would end up being large. The point of interest here is that the initial budget for this hardware and software platform is high, and so we are not even considering the real estate needed to host it. This is where cloud computing providers such as Amazon, Rackspace, Google, and Microsoft come into play. They have hosted the high-end hardware and software in different data centers across the globe and let us choose from different configurations to start an instance. This is then accessed remotely over the public network for management purposes. Literally, all...