MongoDB Essentials E-Book

The MongoDB Press

• Herausgeber: Packt Publishing
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 70

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

Modern applications demand flexibility, speed, and intelligence, and MongoDB delivers all three. This mini guide wastes no time, offering a concise, practical introduction to handling data flexibly and efficiently with MongoDB. MongoDB Essentials helps developers, architects, database administrators, and decision makers get started quickly and confidently.
The book introduces MongoDB’s core principles, from the document data model to its distributed architecture, including replica sets and sharding. It then helps you build hands-on skills such as installing MongoDB, designing effective data schemas, performing CRUD operations, and working with the aggregation pipeline. You’ll discover performance tips along the way and learn how AI-enhanced tools like Atlas Search and Atlas Vector Search power intelligent application development.
With clear explanations and a practical approach, this book gives you the foundation and skills you need to start working with MongoDB right away.

Leseprobe

MongoDB Essentials

A quick introduction

The MongoDB Team

MongoDB Essentials

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To the MongoDB community—builders, architects, operators, and learners—whose curiosity, feedback, and passion continue to shape the evolution of MongoDB.

Foreword

MongoDB wasn’t built to follow trends or repackage legacy paradigms. It was designed to fundamentally rethink how data should be handled in modern applications, where systems scale globally, evolve rapidly, and process a mixture of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.

This book captures over a decade of real-world lessons, patterns, and innovations in a practical, quick-start guide. Authored by the team at MongoDB that enables developers and technologists, this book is not just about using MongoDB; it’s about understanding how and why it works.

Inside, you’ll explore core topics such as the document model, indexing strategies, and the aggregation framework, as well as modern capabilities such as full-text search, vector search, and retrieval-augmented generation. Each chapter is designed to help you develop an intuitive understanding and not just memorize syntax.

Whether you’re new to MongoDB or looking to sharpen your architectural and performance thinking, this guide is designed to get you productive—fast.

We hope it sparks not just solutions but new ideas.

The MongoDB Team

Contributors

This book was written and reviewed by the team behind MongoDB University—a diverse group of engineers, educators, and subject matter experts committed to helping you succeed with MongoDB.

MongoDB Skill Badges

After reading this book, you can validate and showcase your knowledge with official MongoDB Skill Badges, which are short, hands-on credentials you can earn in just 60–90 minutes. These are free, practical, and available on learn.mongodb.com.

Topics include the following:

These badges offer a pathway for continuous learning, whether you’re building applications, designing schemas, optimizing queries, or exploring advanced use cases like AI and distributed systems.

Preface

Before you get started, you may be asking yourself: “What makes MongoDB different?”

To put it simply, MongoDB wasn’t built to follow trends or repackage old ideas. MongoDB reimagines how data should be handled in modern software, where systems evolve rapidly, operate globally, and work with structured and unstructured information side by side.

This book is a quick start for anyone who needs to get up and running with MongoDB. Whether you’re building software, managing systems, or evaluating how MongoDB fits into your stack, this book covers the fundamentals step by step. We’ll look at how MongoDB organizes data, runs queries, scales out, and integrates into modern workflows.

Each chapter builds your understanding of how MongoDB works by focusing on not just the mechanics, but the reasoning behind the design. You’ll learn how to think in terms of documents, model using access patterns, and apply design patterns that work from development to production.

Whether you’re just starting out or sharpening your understanding, this book will give you the clarity and confidence to use MongoDB effectively.

How this book will help you

This book is designed to act as a quick-start guide if you’re new to MongoDB or need a refresher. It introduces key concepts through real-world examples, including data modeling principles, CRUD operations, the aggregation pipeline, and performance tips. This book also includes steps for setting up MongoDB, reducing friction, and giving you hands-on experience from the beginning of your journey.

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone interested in using MongoDB, including developers, database administrators, system architects, students, managers, and decision-makers who want to familiarize themselves with what a modern database can offer. Whether you’re building your first application or exploring what MongoDB can offer you, this book serves as your first step on your MongoDB journey.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, MongoDB Architecture, explores the building blocks of MongoDB’s distributed design and familiarizes you with the document model, replica sets, and sharding.

Chapter 2, Getting Started with MongoDB, covers how to install the required tools, create a local deployment, and your first database and collection.

Chapter 3, Data Modeling, covers the fundamentals of schema design and data modeling in MongoDB.

Chapter 4, CRUD Operations, shows you how to interact with your data.

Chapter 5, Aggregation, shows you how to use the aggregation framework to perform complex data analysis efficiently.

Chapter 6, Performance Strategies and Tools, explains the tools available to ensure that your queries run fast and scale well.

Chapter 7, Intelligent Applications with MongoDB, covers the MongoDB tools that support the development of AI-based applications: Atlas Search and Atlas Vector Search.

To get the most out of this book

You will require the following software:

Software covered in the book

Operating system requirements

MongoDB version 4.4 or newer

Windows, macOS, or Linux

MongoDB Shell (monogsh)

Windows, macOS, or Linux

After reading this book, we encourage you to check out some of the other resources available at https://learn.mongodb.com/.

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://packt.link/gbp/9781806706099.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and X/Twitter handles. For example: “To insert a new book into the books collection, you use the insertOne command.”

A block of code is set as follows:

{ “title”: “Designing APIs with MongoDB”, “author”: “Alex Smith”, “genres”: [“Technology”, “Databases”], “inStock”: true, “publisher”: { “name”: “MongoDB Press”, “location”: “New York” } }

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

brew install mongodb-atlas-cli brew install mongosh brew install mongodb-compass # Optional GUI

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on the screen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. For example: “Sharding is MongoDB’s approach to horizontal scaling.”

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.

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