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Mastering MongoDB 4.x - Second Edition

By : Alex Giamas
Book Image

Mastering MongoDB 4.x - Second Edition

By: Alex Giamas

Overview of this book

MongoDB is the best platform for working with non-relational data and is considered to be the smartest tool for organizing data in line with business needs. The recently released MongoDB 4.x supports ACID transactions and makes the technology an asset for enterprises across the IT and fintech sectors. This book provides expertise in advanced and niche areas of managing databases (such as modeling and querying databases) along with various administration techniques in MongoDB, thereby helping you become a successful MongoDB expert. The book helps you understand how the newly added capabilities function with the help of some interesting examples and large datasets. You will dive deeper into niche areas such as high-performance configurations, optimizing SQL statements, configuring large-scale sharded clusters, and many more. You will also master best practices in overcoming database failover, and master recovery and backup procedures for database security. By the end of the book, you will have gained a practical understanding of administering database applications both on premises and on the cloud; you will also be able to scale database applications across all servers.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Basic MongoDB – Design Goals and Architecture
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Section 2: Querying Effectively
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Section 3: Administration and Data Management
15
Section 4: Scaling and High Availability

MongoDB's key characteristics and use cases

In this section, we will analyze MongoDB's characteristics as a database. Understanding the features that MongoDB provides can help developers and architects to evaluate the requirements at hand and how MongoDB can help to fulfill them. Also, we will go over some common use cases from the experience of MongoDB, Inc. that have delivered the best results for its users.

Key characteristics

MongoDB has grown to become a general purpose NoSQL database, offering the best of both the RDBMS and NoSQL worlds. Some of the key characteristics are as follows:

  • It is a general purpose database: In contrast to other NoSQL databases that are built for specific purposes (for example,...