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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

Summary

The focus of this chapter was working with embedded objects and arrays (lists). Projects presented in this chapter, for the most part, were integrated into Django. In this chapter, you learned how to add a complex object containing embedded objects and arrays to the database. In order to accomplish this, you learned how to create entity classes from form data by defining a form service. The form service performed a process called hydration and moved data between form and entity, and back again. You were also shown how to associate embedded objects with their own sub-forms, and how to insert sub-forms into a primary form.

You then learned about adding rooms to a property, which involved creating embedded objects, that were in turn added to an embedded array. When learning how to use the pymongo.collection.update_one() method to update property contact information, you were also shown how to use AJAX requests to pre-populate fields when the value of other fields changed.

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