MongoDB: The Definitive Guide
by Shannon Bradshaw , Eoin Brazil , and Kristina Chodorow
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to our families for the time, space, and support they provided to make our work on this book possible and for their love.
For Anna, Sigourney, Graham, and Beckett. Shannon
And for Gemma, Clodagh, and Bronagh. Eoin
Preface
How This Book Is Organized
This book is split up into six sections, covering development, administration, and deployment information.
Getting Started with MongoDB
In explains how to find documents and create complex queries. This chapter also covers how to iterate through results and gives options for limiting, skipping, and sorting results.
Developing with MongoDB
goes over tips for writing an application that works well with MongoDB.
Replication
The replication section starts with covers the administrative aspects of running a replica set.
Sharding
The sharding section starts in covers administering a sharded cluster.
Application Administration
The next two chapters cover many aspects of MongoDB administration from the perspective of your application. explains how MongoDB stores data durably.
Server Administration
The final section is focused on server administration. discusses a number of system settings to keep in mind when deploying MongoDB.
Appendixes
details how MongoDB works internally: its storage engine, data format, and wire protocol .
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