A Collection of Software Problems and Solutions
CloudFoundry, Stackato and Helion Development Platform accommodate (and encourage) external services for persistent application needs. The types of services include relational databases, like MySQL or PostgreSQL, NoSQL datastores, like MongoDB, messaging services like RabbitMQ and even cache technologies like Redis and Memcached. In each case, connection details, such as a URL, PORT and credentials, are… Continue reading
Security in MongoDB is relatively young in terms of features and granularity. Interestingly, they indicate that a typical use case would be to use Mongo on a trusted network “much like how one would use, say, memcached.” MongoDB does NOT run in secure mode by default. As it is, the features that are available are… Continue reading
MongoDB implements a form of replication they call replica sets. Referring to a repica set instead of just calling it replication is a helpful distinction that becomes more obviously useful when you are introduced to sharding in MongoDB since each shard should be comprised of a set of replicas unique to that shard, but we’ll… Continue reading
MongoDB is a database. However, unlike conventional relational databases that are based on well defined schema and use SQL as the primary interface to manage the data, MongoDB instead uses document based storage. The storage uses a format known as BSON, which is a modified form of JSON. This makes the stored documents very flexible… Continue reading
I put this presentation together for a local web developer meetup. The topic was MongoDB. MongoDB is a database, but unlike traditional relational databases which store data in well defined tables (schema), MongoDB stores data in JSON like documents (BSON). This provides a great deal of flexibility. After you get through this presentation, go have… Continue reading