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Node.js, MongoDB, and AngularJS Web Development
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Node.js, MongoDB, and AngularJS Web Development

by Brad Dayley
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
696 pages
38h 52m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Implementing a GridFS Store

Occasionally you might want to use MongoDB to store and retrieve data that exceeds the 16MB size limit (for example, if you are storing large images, zip files, movies, etc.). To accommodate this, MongoDB provides the GridFS framework. GridFS splits large documents into chunks. The chunks are stored in one collection, and metadata that is used to access the documents is stored in another collection.

When you query GridFS for a document, the chunks are reassembled and sent back just as any other document. A great feature of GridFS is that by using skip, you can read from the middle of a document without needing to load the entire document from disk. This allows you to read chunks of large files without running the ...

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