Scaling MongoDB / Kristina Chodorow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chodorow, Kristina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Database management--Software.

Database management.

Object-oriented databases.

Open source software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (64 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Beijing ; Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly Media, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Create a MongoDB cluster that will grow to meet the needs of your application. With this short and concise book, you'll get guidelines for setting up and using clusters to store a large volume of data, and learn how to access the data efficiently. In the process, you'll understand how to make your application work with a distributed database system. Scaling MongoDB will help you: Set up a MongoDB cluster through shardingWork with a cluster to query and update dataOperate, monitor, and backup your clusterPlan your application to deal wi

Contents:

Table of Contents; Preface; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Chapter 1. Welcome to Distributed Computing!; What Is Sharding?; Chapter 2. Understanding Sharding; Splitting Up Data; Distributing Data; One range per shard; Multi-range shards; How Chunks Are Created; Example; Sharding collections; Balancing; The Psychopathology of Everyday Balancing; On changing chunk size; mongos; The Config Servers; The Anatomy of a Cluster; Chapter 3. Setting Up a Cluster; Choosing a Shard Key; Low-Cardinality Shard Key; Keys that this rule applies to

Exceptions to the ruleData center awareness; Ascending Shard Key; Keys that this rule applies to; Exceptions to the rule; Random Shard Key; Good Shard Keys; Coarsely ascending key + search key; FAQ; The general case; What shard key should I use?; Sharding a New Collection; Quick Start; Config Servers; mongos; Shards; Limiting shard size; Databases and Collections; Sharding an Existing Collection; Preparing Your Collection for Sharding; Running shardcollection; For Large Data Sets; Adding and Removing Capacity; Removing Shards; Changing Servers in a Shard; Chapter 4. Working With a Cluster

Querying"Why Am I Getting This?"; Counting; Unique Indexes; Updating; MapReduce; Temporary Collections; Chapter 5. Administration; Using the Shell; Getting a Summary; The config Collections; "I Want to Do X, Who Do I Connect To?"; Monitoring; mongostat; The Web Admin Interface; Backups; Config Server Backups; Suggestions on Architecture; Create an Emergency Site; Create a Moat; What to Do When Things Go Wrong; A Shard Goes Down; Most of a Shard Is Down; Config Servers Going Down; Mongos Processes Going Down; Other Considerations; Chapter 6. Further Reading

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 8, 2013).

ISBN:

9781449303877

1449303870

9781449304126

1449304125

OCLC:

780425412