MongoDB Administrator's Guide: Over 100 practical recipes to efficiently maintain and administer your MongoDB solution

Key Features

Configure and deploy your MongoDB instance securely, without any hassle
Optimize your database's query performance, perform scale-out operations, and make your database highly available
Practical guide with a recipe-based approach to help you tackle any problem in the application and database administration aspects of MongoDB

Book Description

MongoDB is a high-performance and feature-rich NoSQL database that forms the backbone of the systems that power many different organizations. Packed with many features that have become essential for many different types of software professional and incredibly easy to use, this cookbook contains more than 100 recipes to address the everyday challenges of working with MongoDB.

Starting with database configuration, you will understand the indexing aspects of MongoDB. The book also includes practical recipes on how you can optimize your database query performance, perform diagnostics, and query debugging. You will also learn how to implement the core administration tasks required for high-availability and scalability, achieved through replica sets and sharding, respectively. You will also implement server security concepts such as authentication, user management, role-based access models, and TLS configuration. You will also learn how to back up and recover your database efficiently and monitor server performance.

By the end of this book, you will have all the information you need—along with tips, tricks, and best practices—to implement a high-performance MongoDB solution.

What you will learn

Install and deploy MongoDB in production
Manage and implement optimal indexes
Optimize monitoring in MongoDB
Fine-tune the performance of your queries
Debug and diagnose your database's performance
Optimize database backups and recovery and ensure high availability
Make your MongoDB instance scalable
Implement security and user authentication features in MongoDB
Master optimal cloud deployment strategies

About the Author

Cyrus Dasadia has enjoyed tinkering with open source projects since 1996. He has been working as a Linux system administrator and part-time programmer for over a decade. He works at InMobi, where he loves designing tools and platforms. His love for MongoDB blossomed in 2013, when he was amazed by its ease of use and stability. Since then, almost all of his projects have been written with MongoDB as the primary backend. Cyrus is also the creator of an open source alert management system called CitoEngine. His spare time is devoted to trying to reverse-engineer software, playing computer games, or increasing his silliness quotient by watching reruns of Monty Python.

Table of Contents

Installation and Configuration
Understanding and Managing Indexes
Performance Tuning
High Availability with Replication
High Scalability with Sharding
Managing MongoDB backups
Restoring MongoDB from backups
Monitoring MongoDB
Authentication and Security in MongoDB
Deploying MongoDB in Production