Scaling MongoDB: Sharding, Cluster Setup, and Administration

Create a MongoDB cluster that will grow to meet the needs of your application. With this short and concise book, you'll get guidelines for setting up and using clusters to store a large volume of data, and learn how to access the data efficiently. In the process, you'll understand how to make your application work with a distributed database system.

Scaling MongoDB will help you:

• Set up a MongoDB cluster through sharding
• Work with a cluster to query and update data
• Operate, monitor, and backup your cluster
• Plan your application to deal with outages

By following the advice in this book, you'll be well on your way to building and running an efficient, predictable distributed system using MongoDB.

Author: Kristina Chodorow
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 04/05/2011
Pages: 60
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.80w x 0.20d
ISBN: 9781449303211

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 06/01/2011 pg. 303

About the Author

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.