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Learn MongoDB 4.x

By : Doug Bierer
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Learn MongoDB 4.x

By: Doug Bierer

Overview of this book

When it comes to managing a high volume of unstructured and non-relational datasets, MongoDB is the defacto database management system (DBMS) for DBAs and data architects. This updated book includes the latest release and covers every feature in MongoDB 4.x, while helping you get hands-on with building a MongoDB database app. You’ll get to grips with MongoDB 4.x concepts such as indexes, database design, data modeling, authentication, and aggregation. As you progress, you’ll cover tasks such as performing routine operations when developing a dynamic database-driven website. Using examples, you’ll learn how to work with queries and regular database operations. The book will not only guide you through design and implementation, but also help you monitor operations to achieve optimal performance and secure your MongoDB database systems. You’ll also be introduced to advanced techniques such as aggregation, map-reduce, complex queries, and generating ad hoc financial reports on the fly. Later, the book shows you how to work with multiple collections as well as embedded arrays and documents, before finally exploring key topics such as replication, sharding, and security using practical examples. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with MongoDB 4.x and be able to perform development and administrative tasks associated with this NoSQL database.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Essentials
5
Section 2: Building a Database-Driven Web Application
9
Section 3: Digging Deeper
13
Section 4: Replication, Sharding, and Security in a Financial Environment
14
Working with Complex Documents Across Collections

Base domain service class

The first class that needs to be defined is one that other domain service classes inherit from. The structure of this class is similar to the one shown earlier in this book. In this case, however, instead of requiring the calling program to define a MongoDB connection and supplying the connection to the constructor, we'll define a constructor that creates its own database and collection from the config.config.Config class described earlier in this book.

We'll start by defining the necessary import and class properties:

# booksomeplace.domain.base
from db.mongodb.connection import Connection
class Base :
db = None
collection = None
dbName = 'booksomeplace'
collectName = 'common'

As mentioned previously, the __init__() method creates an internal Connection, from which we can define database and collection properties:

    def __init__(self, config) :
if config.getConfig('db') :
conn...