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MongoDB Fundamentals

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839210648
Pages 748 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (4):
Amit Phaltankar Amit Phaltankar
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Juned Ahsan Juned Ahsan
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Michael Harrison Michael Harrison
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Liviu Nedov Liviu Nedov
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface
1. Introduction to MongoDB 2. Documents and Data Types 3. Servers and Clients 4. Querying Documents 5. Inserting, Updating, and Deleting Documents 6. Updating with Aggregation Pipelines and Arrays 7. Data Aggregation 8. Coding JavaScript in MongoDB 9. Performance 10. Replication 11. Backup and Restore in MongoDB 12. Data Visualization 13. MongoDB Case Study Appendix

MongoDB Documents

A MongoDB database is composed of collections and documents. A database can have one or more collections, and each collection can store one or more related BSON documents. In comparison to RDBMS, collections are analogous to tables and documents are analogous to rows within a table. However, documents are much more flexible compared with the rows in a table.

RDBMSes consist of a tabular data model that comprises rows and columns. However, your applications may need to support more complex data structures, such as a nested object or a collection of objects. Tabular databases restrict the storage of such complex data structures. In such cases, you will have to split your data into multiple tables and change the application's object structures accordingly. On the other hand, the document-based data model of MongoDB allows your application to store and retrieve more complex object structures due to the flexible JSON-like format of the documents.

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