MongoDB has provided some useful tips for in MongoDB Atlas, including the following:
- Use the latest version of MongoDB whenever possible.
- Use the latest Transport Layer Security (TLS) version available, which is 1.3 at the time of writing.
- Encryption at rest cannot be used together with continuous backups. We need to select cloud provider snapshots to be able to use this feature.
- It's probably a good idea to disable server-side JavaScript, unless we know why we need it, for example, when we have legacy MapReduce jobs in place.
- Requiring indexes for all queries can be useful if we have a well-defined business case and requirements for how we will use the database, and/or we expect our dataset to be so large that querying without ...