© Guy Harrison, Michael Harrison 2021
G. Harrison, M. HarrisonMongoDB Performance Tuninghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6879-7_2

2. MongoDB Architecture and Concepts

Guy Harrison1   and Michael Harrison2
(1)
Kingsville, VIC, Australia
(2)
Derrimut, VIC, Australia
 

This chapter aims to equip you with an understanding of MongoDB architecture and internals referenced in subsequent chapters, which are necessary for MongoDB performance tuning.

A MongoDB tuning professional should be broadly familiar with these main areas of MongoDB technology:

  • The MongoDB document model

  • The way MongoDB applications interact with the MongoDB database server through the MongoDB API

  • The MongoDB optimizer, which is the software layer concerned with maximizing the performance of ...

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