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MongoDB 4 Quick Start Guide

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789343533
Pages 192 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Doug Bierer has been hooked on computers since his first program, written on a DEC PDP-8, in 1971. In his wide-ranging career, he has been a professional contract programmer since 1978, having written applications in BASIC, PL/I, assembler, FORTH, C, C++, dBase/FoxBase/Clipper, Pascal, Perl, Java, and PHP. He deployed his first website in 1993 while living in San Francisco. He speaks four languages, has traveled extensively, and now resides in Thailand. He also spent some years doing system administration and TCP/IP networking. Some of his technical works include PHP 7 Programming Cookbook and Learning MongoDB 4.x (Packt), as well as Learning PHP and MySQL, Learning PHP Security and Learning Doctrine (O'Reilly Media).
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface 1. Introducing MongoDB 2. Understanding MongoDB Data Structures 3. Using the MongoDB Shell 4. Developing with Program Language Drivers 5. Building Complex Queries Using Aggregation 6. Maintaining MongoDB Performance 7. Securing MongoDB 8. Getting from a Web Form to MongoDB 9. Using Docker 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

What is NoSQL?

Before you can begin to use MongoDB properly, it's important to understand its architectural underpinnings. Key to this understanding is what is often referred to as NoSQL. As the rubric implies, a NoSQL database does not use SQL language. More importantly, this means that a NoSQL database is free from the legacy, two-dimensional restrictions that handcuff the traditional RDBMS.

There is no formal definition of NoSQL, but there are certain common characteristics. First of all, a NoSQL database does not adhere to the relational model. This is evident in that MongoDB has no fixed schema, no tables, columns, or rows. A second consideration is that NoSQL databases are driven by the needs of big data. Accordingly, NoSQL databases tend to be scalable as well as distributed. This aspect is visible in the MongoDB feature called sharding, where shards of the database...

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Profile icon Doug Bierer
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Doug Bierer has been hooked on computers since his first program, written on a DEC PDP-8, in 1971. In his wide-ranging career, he has been a professional contract programmer since 1978, having written applications in BASIC, PL/I, assembler, FORTH, C, C++, dBase/FoxBase/Clipper, Pascal, Perl, Java, and PHP. He deployed his first website in 1993 while living in San Francisco. He speaks four languages, has traveled extensively, and now resides in Thailand. He also spent some years doing system administration and TCP/IP networking. Some of his technical works include PHP 7 Programming Cookbook and Learning MongoDB 4.x (Packt), as well as Learning PHP and MySQL, Learning PHP Security and Learning Doctrine (O'Reilly Media).
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