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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

Building queries involving embedded arrays

Management is concerned about customer complaints regarding cleanliness. You have been instructed to produce a report on properties where more than 50% of the reviews for that property report a low cleanliness score (for example, 3 or less).

When conducting queries of any type, it's important to be aware of the database document structure. In this case, we need to examine the properties collection. Using MongoDB Compass, all you need to do is to connect to the database and select the booksomeplace database, as well as the properties collection. In the list view, you can click on the reviews field to get an idea of the structure, as shown here:

As you can see, reviews are represented as embedded arrays. Following the logic presented in the earlier sub-section in this chapter, your first thought might be to construct a query document such as this: {"reviews.cleanliness":{$lt:3}}:

This is not exactly the information we are...