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Mastering MongoDB 3.x

By : Alex Giamas
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Mastering MongoDB 3.x

By: Alex Giamas

Overview of this book

MongoDB has grown to become the de facto NoSQL database with millions of users—from small startups to Fortune 500 companies. Addressing the limitations of SQL schema-based databases, MongoDB pioneered a shift of focus for DevOps and offered sharding and replication maintainable by DevOps teams. The book is based on MongoDB 3.x and covers topics ranging from database querying using the shell, built in drivers, and popular ODM mappers to more advanced topics such as sharding, high availability, and integration with big data sources. You will get an overview of MongoDB and how to play to its strengths, with relevant use cases. After that, you will learn how to query MongoDB effectively and make use of indexes as much as possible. The next part deals with the administration of MongoDB installations on-premise or in the cloud. We deal with database internals in the next section, explaining storage systems and how they can affect performance. The last section of this book deals with replication and MongoDB scaling, along with integration with heterogeneous data sources. By the end this book, you will be equipped with all the required industry skills and knowledge to become a certified MongoDB developer and administrator.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Fault Tolerance and High Availability

In this chapter, we will try to fit in the information that we didn't manage to discuss in the previous chapters, and place emphasis on some others. Throughout the previous 11 chapters we have gone all the way through the basic concepts, to effective querying, to administration and data management, ending in scaling and high-availability concepts.

In the following sections, we will dive deeper into how our application design should be accommodating and proactive with regard to our database needs.

Day-to-day operations are another large area that we will discuss, including tips and best practices that can help us avoid nasty surprises down-the-line.

In light of recent attempts by ransomware to infect and hold hostage MongoDB servers, we will offer more tips around security.

Finally, we will try to sum up the advice given in a series of...