MongoDB Applied Design Patterns

Preface

Whether you’re building the newest and hottest social media website or developing an internal-use-only enterprise business intelligence application, scaling your data model has never been more important. Traditional relational databases, while familiar, present significant challenges and complications when trying to scale up to such “big data” needs. Into this world steps MongoDB, a leading NoSQL database, to address these scaling challenges while also simplifying the process of development.

However, in all the hype surrounding big data, many sites have launched their business on NoSQL databases without an understanding of the techniques necessary to effectively use the features of their chosen database. This book provides the much-needed connection between the features of MongoDB and the business problems that it is suited to solve. The book’s focus on the practical aspects of the MongoDB implementation makes it an ideal purchase for developers charged with bringing MongoDB’s scalability to bear on the particular problem you’ve been tasked to solve.

Audience

This book is intended for those who are interested in learning practical patterns for solving problems and designing applications using MongoDB. Although most of the features of MongoDB highlighted in this book have a basic description here, this is not a beginning MongoDB book. For such an introduction, the reader would be well-served to start with MongoDB: The Definitive Guide by Kristina Chodorow and Michael Dirolf ...