Introducing MongoDB 4.x

In this book, we cover how to work with a MongoDB 4.x database, starting with the simplest concepts and moving on to more complex ones. The book is divided into parts or sections, each of which looks at a different scenario.

In this chapter, you are given a general introduction to MongoDB 4.x with a focus on new features and a brief high-level overview of the technology. We also discuss security enhancements, along with backward-incompatible changes that might cause an application written for MongoDB 3 to break after an upgrade to MongoDB 4.x.

In the next chapter, a simple scenario is introduced: a fictitious company called Sweets Complete Inc. that sells confections online to a small base of international customers. ...

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