By Kristina Chodorow
Date: Monday, 21 June 2010 09:00
Duration: 40 minutes
Target audience: Intermediate
Language: English
Tags: cloud computing databases nosql scalability

Dropping ACID with MongoDB

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MongoDB (from "humongous") is a high-performance, open source, schema-free document-oriented database. Trading off a few traditional features of databases (notably joins and transactions) in order to achieve much better performance, MongoDB is fast, scalable, and designed for web development. This talk will cover:

* Scaling with MongoDB (replica pairs, master/slave, sharding)
* Getting started - CRUD and the JavaScript shell
* Creating schemas for a document-oriented DB
* Cool features for developers (capped collections, file storage, upserts and more)

Mongo occupies a sweet spot for powering web apps, and is in use at SourceForge, EA Games Online, Justin.tv, Github, the New York Times, The Business Insider, and many other companies.

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