MongoDB Cookbook - Second Edition

Starting a simple sharded environment of two shards

In this recipe, we will set up a simple sharded setup made up of two data shards. There will be no replication configured as this is the most basic shard setup to demonstrate the concept. We won't be getting deep into the internals of sharding, which we will explore more in the administration section.

Here is a bit of theory before we proceed. Scalability and availability are two important cornerstones to build any mission-critical application. Availability is something that was taken care of by the replica sets, which we discussed in previous recipes in this chapter. Let's look at scalability now. Simply put, scalability is the ease with which the system can cope with increasing data and request ...