MongoDB: The Definitive Guide

Foreword; Preface; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 A Rich Data Model; 1.2 Easy Scaling; 1.3 Tons of Features…; 1.4 …Without Sacrificing Speed; 1.5 Simple Administration; 1.6 But Wait, That’s Not All…; Chapter 2: Getting Started; 2.1 Documents; 2.2 Collections; 2.3 Databases; 2.4 Getting and Starting MongoDB; 2.5 MongoDB Shell; 2.6 Data Types; Chapter 3: Creating, Updating, and Deleting Documents; 3.1 Inserting and Saving Documents; 3.2 Removing Documents; 3.3 Updating Documents; 3.4 The Fastest Write This Side of Mississippi; 3.5 Requests and Connections; Chapter 4: Querying; 4.1 Introduction to find; 4.2 Query Criteria; 4.3 Type-Specific Queries; 4.4 $where Queries; 4.5 Cursors; 4.6 Cursor Internals; Chapter 5: Indexing; 5.1 Introduction to Indexing; 5.2 Unique Indexes; 5.3 Using explain and hint; 5.4 Index Administration; 5.5 Geospatial Indexing; Chapter 6: Aggregation; 6.1 count; 6.2 distinct; 6.3 group; 6.4 MapReduce; Chapter 7: Advanced Topics; 7.1 Database Commands; 7.2 Capped Collections; 7.3 GridFS: Storing Files; 7.4 Server-Side Scripting; 7.5 Database References; Chapter 8: Administration; 8.1 Starting and Stopping MongoDB; 8.2 Monitoring; 8.3 Security and Authentication; 8.4 Backup and Repair; Chapter 9: Replication; 9.1 Master-Slave Replication; 9.2 Replica Sets; 9.3 Performing Operations on a Slave; 9.4 How It Works; 9.5 Administration; Chapter 10: Sharding; 10.1 Introduction to Sharding; 10.2 Autosharding in MongoDB; 10.3 The Key to Sharding: Shard Keys; 10.4 Setting Up Sharding; 10.5 Production Configuration; 10.6 Sharding Administration; Chapter 11: Example Applications; 11.1 Chemical Search Engine: Java; 11.2 News Aggregator: PHP; 11.3 Custom Submission Forms: Ruby; 11.4 Real-Time Analytics: Python; Installing MongoDB; Choosing a Version; Windows Install; POSIX (Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris) Install; mongo: The Shell; Shell Utilities; MongoDB Internals; BSON; Wire Protocol; Data Files; Namespaces and Extents; Memory-Mapped Storage Engine; Colophon;

Kristina Chodorow, a software engineer at 10gen, is a core contributor to the MongoDB project and has worked on the database server, PHP driver, Perl driver, and many other areas. She’s given talks at conferences around the world, including OSCON, LinuxCon, FOSDEM, and Latinoware.

Mike Dirolf, also a software engineer at 10gen, is the lead maintainer for PyMongo (the MongoDB Python driver), and the former maintainer for the MongoDB Ruby driver. He’s given talks about MongoDB at major conferences around the world.