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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)

Replication

Command summary:

  • rs.initiate( { _id: "<replicaSetName>", members: [ { _id: N, host: "<host>" } ] )
  • rs.add( "<hostname>" | { host: "<hostname>" } )
  • rs.remove( "<hostname>")
  • rs.conf()
  • rs.status()

The purpose of replication is to provide immediate online redundancy so that there is no loss of service in case of failure. Before we get into the mechanics of how to create and use replicas, it's important to gain an understanding of what MongoDB replication is and how it operates.

Here are a couple of related topics which are beyond the scope of this book, but which might be of interest:
Change streams (https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/changeStreams/#change-streams) allows applications to subscribe to real-time changes in the data by using a Publish-Subscribe design.
Arbiters (https://docs...