Mastering MongoDB 7.0 - Fourth Edition
by Marko Aleksendrić, Arek Borucki, Leandro Domingues, Malak Abu Hammad, Elie Hannouch, Rajesh Nair, Rachelle Palmer
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The MongoDB Architecture
MongoDB enables you to meet the demands of modern apps with a developer data platform built on several core architectural foundations. It lets you access the best ways to innovate in building transactional, operational, and analytical applications. This chapter examines the MongoDB architecture with a special emphasis on two key elements: replication and sharding.
Replication is a crucial component in MongoDB's distributed architecture, ensuring data accessibility and resilience to faults. It enables you to spread identical datasets across various database servers, safeguarding against the failure of a single server.
Additionally, you will learn about sharding, a horizontal scaling strategy for spreading data across ...
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