Instant MongoDB

Amol Nayak

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781782169703
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Desktop Applications
• Index: Computer Science

In Detail

MongoDB is a high-performance and feature-rich Document Orientated Database. This popular, highly scalableNoSQL database is used to power some of the world's most used applications and websites.

MongoDB Starter is designed to get you working with MongoDB as quickly as possible. Starting with the installation and setup, we quickly show you how to start importing your data into the database. Furthermore, you will learn about CRUD operations in MongoDB, its Map Reduce support, schema design, and performance tuning operations.

After successfully installing and setting up MongoDB, you will be introduced to important configuration parameters and the terminologies used in the Mongo world and their equivalent in the relational world. You will learn how to import data into the database and connect to the MongoDB from the Mongo shell and execute some queries. We will then move on to advanced topics such as performing insert, update and upsert(update + insert) operations, executing advanced queries, schema design concepts, and creating indexes for performance. MongoDB Starter finishes with a look at the new aggregation framework, Map Reduce operations, and how to bulk import and export data.

Approach

Get to grips with a new technology, understand what it is and what it can do for you, and then get to work with the most important features and tasks. MongoDB Starter is a fast and practical guide designed to help you start developing high-performance and scalable applications using MongoDB.

Who this book is for

MongoDB Starter is ideal for developers who are new to MongoDB and who need a no-nonsense guide on how to start working with it. No knowledge of MongoDB is required to follow this book, but some knowledge of C++ would be helpful.

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Credits

Author

Amol Nayak

Reviewer

Varad Meru

Acquisition Editor

Joanna Fitzpatrick

Commissioning Editor

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Technical Editors

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Pragati Singh

Project Coordinator

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Proofreader

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Graphics

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Cover Work

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Cover Image

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About the Author

Amol Nayak has been working in the Java/JEE space for the past seven years and is currently employed at a leading investment bank where he is working on cutting edge technologies, predominantly open source. He is playing around with MongoDB by developing prototypes for various use cases at his workplace. He is an open source enthusiast and supports it by contributing to the open source frameworks and promoting them. He has significant ongoing contribution to the Spring Integration project, where he has worked on various adapters for JPA, XQuery, MongoDB, push notification to mobile devices, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). He has also made contributions to the Spring Data Mongo project.

I would like to thank everyone at Packt who has been involved with this book. It all started when Ashish from Packt approached me to author a starter book in Mongo. I would like to thank him for giving me this opportunity. It has an excellent experience full of learning along the way. Being my first title, I struggled initially with the process of writing and submitting the content. If it hadn't been for Suraj, Sruthi, and Yogesh from Packt, I wouldn't have been able to deliver the content on time. Suraj and Sruthi showed great patience and helped me a great deal in formatting and organizing the content that I submitted.

A special thanks to Varad Meru, the technical reviewer of the book who agreed to review the contents at very short notice. If it hadn't been for him, who reviewed the content till late at night, we wouldn't have been in a position to go ahead with the publishing of the title on time. I would like to thank the technical editor, Pragati for her exceptionally quick turnaround time which helped get the book ahead into production in no time.

Finally I would like to thank the other staff from Packt who were involved in the book's publishing process but haven't interacted with me, my office colleagues who supported me a great deal, friends, and my mom, who I wasn't able to devote much time to owing to the schedules for the delivery of the content of the book.

About the Reviewer

Varad Meru has experience in the fields of machine learning, information retrieval systems, and search engines and has worked on various projects/products ranging from core machine learning projects such as e-commerce recommender systems, e-mail analytics, and data science platforms to Cloud Infrastructure Products. He is interested in building Intelligent Systems using machine learning, data mining, data visualization, and distributed and parallel Algorithms.

He is currently working as a Software Development Engineer at Orzota, Inc. Previously he worked at Persistent Systems Ltd., Pune as a part of the Big Data team there. He graduated from Shivaji University in 2011.

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Chapter 1. Instant MongoDB

Welcome to Instant MongoDB. This book has been developed to provide you with all the information that you need to get started with MongoDB. You will learn the basics of MongoDB, get started by installing it, and then perform various operations on it such as inserting, updating, and querying data and discover some tips and tricks for using MongoDB.

This document contains the following sections:

So what is MongoDB? explains what MongoDB actually is, what you can do with it, and why it's so great.

Installation shows you how to download and install MongoDB with minimum effort, introducing the important configuration parameters and then how to set it up so that you can use it as soon as possible.

Quick start – setting up database and querying starts off by giving a brief comparison of terminologies from the Mongo world and their equivalent in the relational world. We then import some data in the database; this is the data we would be playing around with for most of the book. We conclude this section by connecting to the MongoDB from the Mongo shell and executing some queries to get a feel of how the queries and the data look. We basically would only be scratching the surface of this technology in this section.

Top 4 features you need to know about helps us learn how to perform various operations on MongoDB from the Mongo shell. By the end of this section you will be able to connect to a database from the shell, perform insert, update, and upsert (update + insert) operations, execute advanced queries, schema design concepts, and creating indexes for performance. Also, you will finally learn about the new aggregation framework and Map reduce operations.

People and places you should get to know lists many useful links to the project page and forums. Also, since every Open Source project is centered on a community, it provides a number of helpful articles, tutorials, and blogs which will enrich your learning process.

So, what is MongoDB?

Put simply, MongoDB is a Documented Oriented Database.

What is a document?

While it may vary for various implementations of different Document Oriented Databases available, as far as MongoDB is concerned it is a BSON document, which stands for Binary JSON. JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is an open standard developed for human readable data exchange. Though a thorough knowledge of JSON is not really important to understand MongoDB, for keen readers the URL to its RFC is http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4627. Also, the BSON specification can be found at http://bsonspec.org/. Since MongoDB stores the data as BSON documents, it is a Document Oriented Database.

What does a document look like?

Consider the following example where we represent a person using JSON:

{ "firstName":"Jack", "secondName":"Jones", "age":30, "phoneNumbers":[ {fixedLine:"1234"}, {mobile:"5678"} ], "residentialAddress":{ lineOne:"…", lineTwo:"…", city:"…", state:"…", zip:"…", country:"…" } }

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