I have a RESTful SaaS service I created which uses MongoDB. Each REST call creates a new record in a statistics collection. In order to implement quotas and provide user analytics, I need to process the statistics collection periodically and generate meaningful analytics specific to each user. This is just the type of problem map reduce was meant to solve. In order to accomplish this I’ll need to do the following: Map all statistics records over a time range Reduce the number of calls, both authenticated and anonymous Finalize to get the sum......

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