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Mastering MongoDB 6.x - Third Edition

By : Alex Giamas
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Mastering MongoDB 6.x - Third Edition

By: Alex Giamas

Overview of this book

MongoDB is a leading non-relational database. This book covers all the major features of MongoDB including the latest version 6. MongoDB 6.x adds many new features and expands on existing ones such as aggregation, indexing, replication, sharding and MongoDB Atlas tools. Some of the MongoDB Atlas tools that you will master include Atlas dedicated clusters and Serverless, Atlas Search, Charts, Realm Application Services/Sync, Compass, Cloud Manager and Data Lake. By getting hands-on working with code using realistic use cases, you will master the art of modeling, shaping and querying your data and become the MongoDB oracle for the business. You will focus on broadly used and niche areas such as optimizing queries, configuring large-scale clusters, configuring your cluster for high performance and availability and many more. Later, you will become proficient in auditing, monitoring, and securing your clusters using a structured and organized approach. By the end of this book, you will have grasped all the practical understanding needed to design, develop, administer and scale MongoDB-based database applications both on premises and on the cloud.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Basic MongoDB – Design Goals and Architecture
4
Part 2 – Querying Effectively
11
Part 3 – Administration and Data Management
16
Part 4 – Scaling and High Availability

MongoDB Atlas Serverless

Serverless has been quickly gaining traction over the past few years. Serverless computing doesn’t mean that there is no server anywhere—it means that the server infrastructure is completely transparent to the application developer. The cloud infrastructure abstracts any required servers away from the developer.

The developer can write code that executes directly and can access storage and computing resources without the need to think as much about scaling or storage needs.

Connecting to a serverless instance is the same as connecting to a MongoDB Atlas replica set, such as the MongoDB URL.

Serverless computing’s major advantage is that we only pay for the resources that we are using. This can result in cost savings when we have a highly variable load, a load with short bursts, or otherwise cannot fully utilize our servers for most of the time.

Serverless instances are in preview mode as of the time of writing this book (summer...