Revised edition of: Scaling MongoDB / Kristina Chodorow. 2011

Introduction to MongoDB. Introduction -- Getting started -- Creating, updating, and deleting documents -- Querying -- Designing your application. Indexing -- Special index and collection types -- Aggregation -- Application design -- Replication. Setting up a replica set -- Components of a replica set -- Connecting to a replica set from your application -- Administration -- Sharding. Introduction to sharding -- Configuring sharding -- Choosing a shard key -- Sharding administration -- Application administration. Seeing what your application is doing -- Data administration -- Durability -- Server administration. Starting and stopping MongoDB -- Monitoring MongoDB -- Making backups -- Deploying MongoDB

This introductory text shows the advantages of using document-oriented databases and demonstrates how MongoDB is a reliable, high-performance system that allows for 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 a project

Includes index