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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)

Using MongoDB with Docker

The installation of Docker (https://www.docker.com/) and how it operates is beyond the scope of this book. It will be of interest to DevOps (in other words, developers and IT operations professionals) to know that the Docker community has created an image (https://hub.docker.com/_/mongo/) in which MongoDB is pre-installed. To use this image, assuming that you have Docker installed, proceed as follows:

  1. Go to the GitHub page for the Docker mongo image (https://github.com/docker-library/docs/blob/master/mongo/README.md), and choose a tag to use. The list of tags refer to different versions of Windows and Ubuntu Linux. Each tag listed on the GitHub page links to a docker file, so if you are not running either Windows or Ubuntu Linux, it's easy enough to modify the docker file to suit your needs.
  2. From the Command Prompt/Terminal window, issue this command...