Chapter 8. Replication
- Basic replication concepts
- Administering replica sets and handling failover
- Replica set connections, write concern, read scaling, and tagging
Replication is central to most database management systems because of one inevitable fact: failures happen. If you want your live production data to be available even after a failure, you need to be sure that your production databases are available on more than one machine. Replication ensures against failure, providing high availability and disaster recovery.
I begin this chapter by introducing replication in general and discussing its main use cases. I’ll then cover MongoDB’s replication through a detailed study of replica sets. Finally, I’ll describe how ...
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