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Practical MongoDB Aggregations

By : Paul Done
Book Image

Practical MongoDB Aggregations

By: Paul Done

Overview of this book

Officially endorsed by MongoDB, Inc., Practical MongoDB Aggregations helps you unlock the full potential of the MongoDB aggregation framework, including the latest features of MongoDB 7.0. This book provides practical, easy-to-digest principles and approaches for increasing your effectiveness in developing aggregation pipelines, supported by examples for building pipelines to solve complex data manipulation and analytical tasks. This book is customized for developers, architects, data analysts, data engineers, and data scientists with some familiarity with the aggregation framework. It begins by explaining the framework's architecture and then shows you how to build pipelines optimized for productivity and scale. Given the critical role arrays play in MongoDB's document model, the book delves into best practices for optimally manipulating arrays. The latter part of the book equips you with examples to solve common data processing challenges so you can apply the lessons you've learned to practical situations. By the end of this MongoDB book, you’ll have learned how to utilize the MongoDB aggregation framework to streamline your data analysis and manipulation processes effectively.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
2
Part 1: Guiding Tips and Principles
7
Part 2: Aggregations by Example
16
Afterword

How will this book help you?

Mastering the MongoDB aggregation framework can seem overwhelming. The focus of this book is to streamline your learning process for aggregations and make difficult concepts and steps simpler to understand. You'll be able to craft aggregation pipelines that exhibit increased performance and scalability by using the guidance and practical examples shared in this book. Instead of inefficiently extracting vast amounts of data for external processing, you'll learn how to shift more of your data processing tasks directly to the database. Furthermore, your developed pipelines will be more robust and adaptable, ready to evolve in response to changing business requirements.