MongoDB in Action

by Kyle Banker

Summary MongoDB in Action is a comprehensive guide to MongoDB for application developers. The book begins by explaining what makes MongoDB unique and describing its ideal use cases. A series of tutorials designed for MongoDB mastery then leads into detailed examples for leveraging MongoDB in e-commerce, social networking, analytics, and other common applications. About the Technology Big data can mean big headaches. MongoDB is a document-oriented database designed to be flexible, scalable, and very fast, even with big data loads. It's built for high availability, supports rich, dynamic schemas, and lets you easily distribute data across multiple servers. About this Book MongoDB in Action introduces you to MongoDB and the document-oriented database model. This perfectly paced book provides both the big picture you'll need as a developer and enough low-level detail to satisfy a system engineer. Numerous examples will help you develop confidence in the crucial area of data modeling. You'll also love the deep explanations of each feature, including replication, auto-sharding, and deployment This book is written for developers. No MongoDB or NoSQL experience required. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. What's Inside Table of Contents

Genres: Programming, Software, Computer Science, Technical, Technology, Reference, Computers

287 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 2011

Reviews

[Denis Nuțiu · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very unusual book that is very detailed and contains a lot of explanations. Including production grade deployment and security features.

[Mrugesh · Rating 3 out of 5]

I knew what to expect, having read Kyle Banker's blog previously. It's extremely helpful when you know MongoDB already and works really well as a reference book with sufficient explanation in case you need a refresher. That's exactly what I wanted from this book. There's a good discussion about the data modelling and aggregate queries. The e-commerce examples are extremely helpful. Good book. Didn't expect any less from Kyle Banker.

[Alona 2156 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like Mongo and this book gave me a broad explanation about the topics I've been curious about. Almost no questions pop up when you read because it gives really well shaped explanations about everything. Not just get started stuff, the content is very deep. I'm still reading this book and it gives me a good feeling, the guy knows what he's talking about. As far as I see from his linkedin account he's into Redis too, would be great to see some book on this topic as well. Also I think third edition of MongoDB in Action can be great idea, as there are many things that appeared in 4th version.

[Avinash Pawar · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best book in my knowledge to start with MongoDB.
Kyle Banker is an excellent author. He wrote this book keeping in mind that a person reading the book has no prerequisite knowledge on the subject.
I tried MongoDB documentation, Udemy lectures, YouTube videos but nothing helped me.
MongoDB in Action gets you started on MongoDB.

[Louise]

Pretty good so far, but will probably come back to this when the need arises.

[Alexander Ryabov · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cool introduction into MongoDB world

[Frank Mcgeough · Rating 3 out of 5]

worthwhile. Some of the examples are somewhat dated and need to be reworked in order to run. Most of the concepts reviewed are still relevant.

[Kim Falk · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good introduction to MongoDB, with lots of important insights.

Shame it doesn't have anything on the aggregation framework.

[Kevin McDermott · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good introduction to document storage in MongoDB, goes from basics to being comfortable storing/updating/retrieving documents, with some basics on building applications to use the storage.

[Christian Meilke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good. Waiting for the 2nd edition.

[Frank Palardy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like their books but some examples are a bit much.

[Yurr Ksenevich · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book structure and explanations are very clear. Contains really helfull topics of how to work with enterprise data storage.

[Kyle Wilson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gave me the information on MongoDB I needed. Stays on my shelf as a reference.

[Parham Alvani · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy to understand but covers deep. An awesome book for newcomers to MongoDB.

[Rade · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book for MongoDB beginners. Well and nicely written and explained with good examples