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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.

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MongoDB 4 Quick Start Guide
Doug Bierer
Sep, 2018 | 192 pages
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Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Preface
Preface
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1
Introducing MongoDB
Introducing MongoDB
Overview of MongoDB
Installing MongoDB
Installing MongoDB on Linux
Summary
2
Understanding MongoDB Data Structures
Understanding MongoDB Data Structures
What is NoSQL?
Documents, collections, and database
Data-modeling considerations
Creating a MongoDB database and collection
Summary
3
Using the MongoDB Shell
Using the MongoDB Shell
Overview
Performing simple queries
Database and collection operations
Creating, updating, or deleting documents
Creating and running shell scripts
Summary
4
Developing with Program Language Drivers
Developing with Program Language Drivers
Overview of the MongoDB PHP driver
Installing the MongoDB PHP extension
Performing CRUD operations using PHPLIB
Other libraries and framework integration
Summary
5
Building Complex Queries Using Aggregation
Building Complex Queries Using Aggregation
An overview of aggregation
Using single-purpose aggregation
Using the aggregation pipeline
Using map-reduce
Using the MongoDB Compass aggregation pipeline builder
Summary
6
Maintaining MongoDB Performance
Maintaining MongoDB Performance
Indexes
Simple backup and restore
Replication
Sharding
Summary
7
Securing MongoDB
Securing MongoDB
MongoDB security overview
Transport Layer Security
Authentication
Access control
Summary
8
Getting from a Web Form to MongoDB
Getting from a Web Form to MongoDB
Building the application
Configuring transaction support
Adding security
Summary
9
Using Docker
Using Docker
Using MongoDB with Docker
10
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Overview

The mongo is an executable installed as part of MongoDB. When run, this utility provides an interactive JavaScript command line style interface to the MongoDB database. You can use the shell to perform any and all actions on the MongoDB database including queries, adding, editing, and removing documents from collections. You can also perform higher level operations such as creating a database and collections.

Why use the mongo shell?

A fair question to ask is why use the mongo shell? After all, given that the wonderful graphical utility MongoDB Compass is provided free-of-charge, why bother with the shell? The answer lies in the very nature of Compass; it's graphical in nature, which means you are out of luck...

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