What would happen if you optimized a data store for the operations application developers actually use? You’d arrive at MongoDB, the reliable document-oriented database. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to build elegant database applications with MongoDB and PHP. Written by the Chief Solutions Architect at 10gen―the company that develops and supports this open source database―this book takes you through MongoDB basics such as queries, read-write operations, and administration, and then dives into MapReduce, sharding, and other advanced topics. Get out of the relational database rut, and take advantage of a high-performing system optimized for operations and scale.
This book is a quick, easy to understand overview of MongoDB and its use in PHP. I've been using MongoDB in production environments for almost a year now and I learned several new things while reading this.
Full disclosure: the author is a good friend of mine—a fact that didn't affect my rating or (very short) review.