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MongoDB 4 Quick Start Guide

By : Doug Bierer
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MongoDB 4 Quick Start Guide

By: Doug Bierer

Overview of this book

MongoDB has grown to become the de facto NoSQL database with millions of users, from small start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. It can solve problems that are considered difficult, if not impossible, for aging RDBMS technologies. Written for version 4 of MongoDB, this book is the easiest way to get started with MongoDB. You will start by getting a MongoDB installation up and running in a safe and secure manner. You will learn how to perform mission-critical create, read, update, and delete operations, and set up database security. You will also learn about advanced features of MongoDB such as the aggregation pipeline, replication, and sharding. You will learn how to build a simple web application that uses MongoDB to respond to AJAX queries, and see how to make use of the MongoDB programming language driver for PHP. The examples incorporate new features available in MongoDB version 4 where appropriate.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Introducing MongoDB

This chapter gives you a brief overview of MongoDB, including answering such questions as what is MongoDB?, why use it?, and what are its benefits? It then covers installing the MongoDB Community Edition (free version) on a Windows server and on Linux. You will learn the installation differences between RPM based Linux distributions (Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS) and Deb based (Debian, Ubuntu). There is also a brief summary of how to install directly from source.

The topics that we will learn in this chapter are:

  • Overview of MongoDB
  • Installing MongoDB
  • Installing MongoDB on Linux