ISBN: 9789351102694    Publisher: Shroff / O'Reilly Year of publishing: 2013     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 452        Language: English

Manage the huMONGOus amount of data collected through your web application with MongoDB. This authoritative introduction - written by a core contributor to the project - shows you the many advantages of using document-oriented databases and demonstrates how this reliable, high-performance system allows for almost infinite horizontal scalability. This updated second edition provides guidance for database developers, advanced configuration for system administrators and an overview of the concepts and use cases for other people on your project. Ideal for NoSQL newcomers and experienced MongoDB users alike, this guide provides numerous real-world schema design examples. Get started with MongoDB core concepts and vocabulary. Perform basic write operations at different levels of safety and speed. Create complex queries, with options for limiting, skipping and sorting results. Design an application that works well with MongoDB. Aggregate data, including counting, finding distinct values, grouping documents and using MapReduce. Gather and interpret statistics about your collections and databases. Set up replica sets and automatic failover in MongoDB. Use sharding to scale horizontally and learn how it impacts applications. Delve into monitoring, security and authentication, backup/restore and other administrative tasks.
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Kristina Chodorow, a software engineer at 10gen, is a core contributor to the MongoDB project and has worked on the database server, PHP driver, Perl driver and many other areas. Shes given talks at conferences around the world, including OSCON, LinuxCon, FOSDEM and Latinoware.Mike Dirolf, also a software engineer at 10gen, is the lead maintainer for PyMongo (the MongoDB Python driver) and the former maintainer for the MongoDB Ruby driver. Hes given talks about MongoDB at major conferences around the world.
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