Advanced MongoDB teaches participants advanced concepts regarding the MongoDB open-source NoSQL document database. Attendees learn Mongo’s most compelling use cases and master the advanced features of MongoDB.
Audience: Architects, designers, administrators and programmers requiring noSQL as well as project managers requiring intermediate to advanced MongoDB concepts. This course is also for programmers and testers integrating MongoDB into applications.
Course Duration: 2 days
Prerequisites:
- Some familiarity with database concepts
- Some experience with any SQL or NoSQL database
- Basic programming in almost a scripting or object-oriented language (command-line scripting, database programming, or application programming)
Hardware and Software Requirements:
Each student will need:
- Modern operating system (Windows, Mac, Linux, or Solaris) with at least 3 GB RAM
- MongoDB 3.x
- Text editor with line numbering and code highlighting
Course Objectives:
- Define NoSQL Databases
- Install, configure and mange MongoDB
- Learn and employ best practices for using MongoDB
- Demonstrate knowledge by coding and configuring MongoDB
- Understand advanced MongoDB concepts
Course Outline:
- Mongo Administration
- Installing and Configuring MongoDB
- Operational Strategies
- Data Management
- Configuration files
- Performance Analysis
- Diagnostics and Debugging
- Maintenance
- Backup and Recovery
- Principles
- Building backups
- Recovering from backups
- Advanced Queries
- SQL to aggregation mapping
- Advanced aggregations and map-reduce
- Accessing MongoDB from Program APIs
- Using programming APIs to access MongoDB
- Performing queries
- Performing updates
- Indexing and Performance
- The primary index and the _id field
- Problems requiring an index
- Defining secondary indexes
- Compound indexes
- Index selection
- Index hints
- Covering indexes
- Index storage size
- Indexes and explain
- Optimizing indexes
- Geospatial indexes
- GridFS
- GridFS Collections
- Using GridFS collections
- REST
- Representational State Transfer
- Sending REST commands
- CRUD operations using MongoDB REST operations
- Mongo Security
- Authorization and securing collections, documents
- The limits of Mongo’s authorization scheme
- Authentication
- LDAP
- Mongo security in the enterprise
- Replication
- Configuration
- Write Concerns
- Read preferences
- Elections
- Failover
- Sharding
- Configuration
- When to Shard
- Accessing clustered data from client APIs
- Shard keys and hashed keys
- Latency and balancing
- Next Steps