MongoDB Administrator’s Guide

Key Features

• Configure and deploy your MongoDB instance securely, without any hassle
• Optimize your database’s query performance, perform scale out operations and make it 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 professionals and incredibly easy to use, this cookbook contains more than 100 recipes to address the everyday challenges of working with MongoDB.

Starting with covering the database configuration, you will understand the indexing aspects of MongoDB. The book also includes practical recipes on how you can optimize your database’s 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 like authentication, user management, role-based access models and TLS configuration. You will also learn how to backup 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-performant 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 backup and recovery and ensure high availability
• Make your MongoDB instance scalable
• Implement security and user authentication features in MongoDB
• Includes optimal cloud deployment strategies

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Installation And Configuration
Chapter 2. Understanding And Managing Indexes
Chapter 3. Performance Tuning
Chapter 4. High Availability With Replication
Chapter 5. High Scalability With Sharding
Chapter 6. Managing Mongodb Backups
Chapter 7. Restoring Mongodb From Backups
Chapter 8. Monitoring Mongodb
Chapter 9. Authentication And Security In Mongodb
Chapter 10. Deploying Mongodb In Production