March 2016
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
15h 49m
English
book
MongoDB in Action, Second Edition
by Tim Hawkins, Kyle Banker, Shaun Verch, Douglas Garrett, Peter Bakkum
Overview
MongoDB in Action, Second Edition is a completely revised and updated version. It introduces MongoDB 3.0 and the document-oriented database model. This perfectly paced book gives you both the big picture you'll need as a developer and enough low-level detail to satisfy system engineers.
About the Technology
This document-oriented database was built for high availability, supports rich, dynamic schemas, and lets you easily distribute data across multiple servers. MongoDB 3.0 is flexible, scalable, and very fast, even with big data loads.
About the Book
MongoDB in Action, Second Edition is a completely revised and updated version. It introduces MongoDB 3.0 and the document-oriented database model. This perfectly paced book gives you both the big picture you'll need as a developer and enough low-level detail to satisfy system engineers. Lots of examples will help you develop confidence in the crucial area of data modeling. You'll also love the deep explanations of each feature, including replication, auto-sharding, and deployment.
What's Inside
- Indexes, queries, and standard DB operations
- Aggregation and text searching
- Map-reduce for custom aggregations and reporting
- Deploying for scale and high availability
- Updated for Mongo 3.0
About the Reader
Written for developers. No previous MongoDB or NoSQL experience is assumed.
About the Authors
After working at MongoDB, Kyle Banker is now at a startup. Peter Bakkum is a developer with MongoDB expertise. Shaun Verch has worked on the core server team at MongoDB. A Genentech engineer, Doug Garrett is one of the winners of the MongoDB Innovation Award for Analytics. A software architect, Tim Hawkins has led search engineering at Yahoo Europe.
Technical Contributor: Wouter Thielen
Technical Editor: Mihalis Tsoukalos
Quotes
A thorough manual for learning, practicing, and implementing MongoDB
- Jeet Marwah, Acer Inc.
A must-read to properly use MongoDB and model your data in the best possible way.
- Hernan Garcia, Betterez Inc.
Provides all the necessary details to get you jump-started with MongoDB.
- Gregor Zurowski, Independent Software Development Consultant
Awesome! MongoDB in a nutshell.
- Hardy Ferentschik, Red Hat
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