NoSQL with MongoDB in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself

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Sams Publishing, Aug 21, 2014 - Computers - 544 pages

NoSQL database usage is growing at a stunning 50% per year, as organizations discover NoSQL's potential to address even the most challenging Big Data and real-time database problems. Every NoSQL database is different, but one is the most popular by far: MongoDB.

Now, in just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you can learn how to leverage MongoDB's immense power. Each short, easy lesson builds on all that's come before, teaching NoSQL concepts and MongoDB techniques from the ground up.

Sams Teach Yourself NoSQL with MongoDB in 24 Hours covers all this, and much more:

  • Learning how NoSQL is different, when to use it, and when to use traditional RDBMSes instead
  • Designing and implementing MongoDB databases of diverse types and sizes
  • Storing and interacting with data via Java, PHP, Python, and Node.js/Mongoose
  • Choosing the right NoSQL distribution model for your application
  • Installing and configuring MongoDB
  • Designing MongoDB data models, including collections, indexes, and GridFS
  • Balancing consistency, performance, and durability
  • Leveraging the immense power of Map-Reduce
  • Administering, monitoring, securing, backing up, and repairing MongoDB databases
  • Mastering advanced techniques such as sharding and replication
  • Optimizing performance

 

Contents

Introduction
1
Getting Started with NoSQL and MongoDB
5
Implementing NoSQL in MongoDB
69
Using MongoDB in Applications
185
Additional MongoDB Concepts
433
Index
505
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About the author (2014)

Brad Dayley is a senior software engineer with more than 20 years of experience developing enterprise applications. He has designed and developed large-scale business applications, including SAS applications with NoSQL database back ends and rich Internet web applications as front ends. He is the author of the jQ uery and JavaScript Phrasebook, Sams Teach Yourself jQuery and JavaScript in 24 Hours, and Node.js, MongoDB and AngularJS Web Development.

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