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Mastering MongoDB 6.x - Third Edition
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Mastering MongoDB 6.x - Third Edition

by Alex Giamas
August 2022
Beginner to intermediate
460 pages
10h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Mastering Sharding

Sharding is the ability to horizontally scale out our database by partitioning our datasets across different servers—shards. This has been a feature of MongoDB since version 1.6 (v1.6) was released in August 2010. Foursquare and Bitly are two of MongoDB’s most famous early customers and have used the sharding feature from its inception all the way to its general release.

In this chapter, we will learn about the following topics:

  • How to design a sharding cluster and how to make the important decision of choosing the shard key
  • Different sharding techniques and how to monitor and administrate sharded clusters
  • The mongos router and how it is used to route our queries across different shards
  • How we can recover from errors in ...
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