June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
696 pages
38h 52m
English
Three types of MongoDB servers are involved in sharding data. Each of these servers plays a specific role in presenting a single unified view to the applications. The following are the server types, and Figure 17.4 illustrates the interaction between them:
Shard: A shard stores the documents that make up the collection. A shard can be an individual server, but to provide high availability and data consistency in production, you should consider using a replica set that provides primary and secondary copies of the shard.
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