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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

Running the demo environment

To bring the demo environment online, open a Terminal window, and change to the directory where you restored the source code for the book. To build the new Docker image to be used to test examples from Chapter 3, Essential MongoDB Administration Techniques, to Chapter 12Developing in a Secured Environment, run this command:

docker-compose build

To run the image, simply issue this command (the -d option causes the container to run in the background):

docker-compose up -d

After that, you can issue this command to open up a command shell inside the running container:

docker exec -it learn-mongo-server-1 /bin/bash

You should see a /repo directory that contains all the source code from the repository. If you then change to the /repo/chapters/02 directory, you can run the Python test program that confirms whether or not a connection to MongoDB is successful. Here is a screenshot of what you might see:

If you need to restart either MongoDB or Apache...