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Mastering MongoDB 3.x

You're reading from Mastering MongoDB 3.x An expert's guide to building fault-tolerant MongoDB applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783982608

Length 342 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Hadoop

Concepts

Databases

Author (1):

Alex Giamas

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

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Preface

1. MongoDB – A Database for the Modern Web FREE CHAPTER

2. Schema Design and Data Modeling

3. MongoDB CRUD Operations

4. Advanced Querying

5. Aggregation

6. Indexing

7. Monitoring, Backup, and Security

8. Storage Engines

9. Harnessing Big Data with MongoDB

10. Replication

11. Sharding

12. Fault Tolerance and High Availability

Cloud options for a replica set

We can set up and operate a replica set from our own servers but we can reduce our operational overhead by using a database as a service (DBaaS) provider to do it. The two most widely used MongoDB cloud providers are mLab (former MongoLab) and MongoDB Atlas, the native offering from MongoDB Inc.

In this section, we will go over these options and how they fare against using our own hardware and data centers.

mLab

mLab is one of the most popular cloud DBaaS providers for MongoDB. It has been offered since 2011 and is considered a stable and mature provider.

After signing up, we can easily deploy a replica set cluster in a set of cloud servers without any operational overhead. Configuration options include AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud as the underlying server provider.

There are multiple sizing options for the latest MongoDB version. There is no support at the time of writing for the MMAPv1 storage engine.

There are multiple regions for each provider (US,...

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Authors (1)

Alex Giamas

Alex Giamas

Alex Giamas is a freelance consultant and a hands-on Lead Technical and Data Architect. Over the past 15 years, he has expertise in designing and developing systems for the UK Government (HMRC, Cabinet Office, DIT) and private sector (Amazon ProServe, PwC, Fintech Fortune 500, Yahoo!, Verizon) clients. Alex is an alumnus of the MassChallenge London cohort as the co-founder and CTO of a digital health startup. Alex has authored Mastering MongoDB 3.x and 4.x, both by Packt Publishing. Alex has developed large-scale robust, distributed software systems in Python, JavaScript, Ruby, and Java. He is a MongoDB Certified Developer, a Cloudera Hadoop Certified Developer with Data Science Essentials, and a Carnegie Mellon and Stanford graduate.

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