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MongoDB 4 Quick Start Guide

By : Bierer
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MongoDB 4 Quick Start Guide

By: 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 gained a better understanding of what MongoDB is, why we use it, and what its benefits are. You then learned how to install MongoDB on both Windows and Linux. You learned how to install the pre-compiled binary packages, which use the extension *.deb and are designed for Debian and Ubuntu Linux package manager. In a similar manner, you learned how to install binary packages with the *.rpm extension on Redhat, Fedora, or CentOS Linux distributions. Finally, you learned how to install Linux by directly compiling and installing the source code using SCons technology.

In the next chapter you will learn about MongoDB data structures, data modeling, and how to create a database, collection, and documents.