The Definitive Guide to MongoDB: The NoSQL Database for Cloud and Desktop Computing

by Eelco Plugge, Duptim Hawkins, Peter Membrey

MongoDB, a cross-platform NoSQL database, is the fastest-growing new database in the world. MongoDB provides a rich document-oriented structure with dynamic queries that you'll recognize from RDBMS offerings such as MySQL. In other words, this is a book about a NoSQL database that does not require the SQL crowd to re-learn how the database world works!

MongoDB has reached 1.0 and boasts 50,000+ users. The community is strong and vibrant and MongoDB is improving at a fast rate. With scalable and fast databases becoming critical for today's applications, this book shows you how to install, administer and program MongoDB without pretending SQL never existed.

What you'll learn Set up MongoDB on all major platforms, including Linux and Cloud platforms Model data within a document-oriented database Work with your data using non-SQL commands Write applications using MongoDB's PHP API Optimize MongoDB Master MongoDB administration, including replication Who this book is for

This book will appeal to everyone with some experience in database administration, and provides the entry point for those of us who don't want to hear about database theory but still need to implement a NoSQL-based database. PHP developers will also profit from this book, since it will add an important NoSQL database to their toolkit.

Table of Contents  Introduction to MongoDB   Installing MongoDB   The Data Model  Working with Data  GridFS   PHP and MongoDB   Python and MongoDB   Creating a Blog Application with the PHP Driver  Database Administration   Optimization   Replication  Sharding 

Genres: Programming

328 pages, Paperback

First published August 26, 2010

Reviews

[Alessandro Pellizzari · Rating 3 out of 5]

Si divide idealmente in due.

La prima parte copre l'interazione col database: creazione database e collection, inserimento dati e query, ecc. Talmente lacunosa e approssimativa che avrebbe meritato 2 stelle.

La seconda parte copre l'amministrazione dal punto di vista sistemistico, e tratta argomenti un po' ignorati da altri libri, come ad esempio configurazioni (multi)master-(multi)slave, sharding e sharding su replicaset. Questa parte avrebbe meritato quattro stelle (non cinque perche` non e` abbastanza approfondita).

Per un libro che si definisce "la guida definitiva" forse tre stelle sono anche troppe.