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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about maintenance and performance. You first learned about simple backup and restore using mongodump and mongorestore. You then went on to learn about creating indexes, including single field, multiple field, and multi-key. After that, you learned about replica sets, that is, primary and secondaries, how to deploy them, and adding or removing members. Finally, you learned about sharding, config servers, shard servers, range and hashed sharding strategies, and how to choose a shard key.

In the next chapter, you will learn various security-related considerations, in addition to learning how to secure a MongoDB database.