Robert Stam gave an introduction to MongoDB and building the first app. He discussed that MongoDB is a document database that uses JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas, horizontal scaling, and high performance. He then demonstrated creating a basic library management application in MongoDB by defining entities as collections, inserting sample data, and performing queries.

1. Building Your First App: An
Introduction to MongoDB
Robert Stam
Software Engineer
MongoDB, Inc.
Great Wide Open Conference
Atlanta, April 2, 2014

2. What is MongoDB?

3. 3
• Document
• Open source
• High performance
• Horizontally scalable
• Full featured
MongoDB is a __________ database

4. 4
• Not for .PDF & .DOC files
• A document is essentially an associative array
• Document == JSON object
• Document == PHP Array
• Document == Python Dict
• Document == Ruby Hash
• Document == C# BsonDocument object model
• etc
Document Database

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• MongoDB is an open source project
• On GitHub
• Licensed under the AGPL
• Started & sponsored by MongoDB, Inc
• Commercial licenses available
• Contributions welcome
Open Source

6. Database Landscape

7. 7
• Written in C++
• Runs nearly everywhere
• Extensive use of memory-mapped files
i.e. read-through write-through memory caching.
• Data serialized as BSON (fast parsing)
• Full support for primary & secondary indexes
• Document model = less work
High Performance

8. 8
• Ad Hoc queries
• Rich query capabilities
• Geospatial features
• Real time aggregation
• Eventually consistent
• Support for many programming languages
• Flexible schema
Full Featured

9. 9
Indexing @

10. 10
Replication @

11. 11
Sharding @

12. mongodb.org/downloads

13. Document Database

14. RDBMS MongoDB
Table, View  Collection
Row  Document
Index  Index
Join  Embedded Document
Foreign Key  Reference
Partition  Shard
Terminology

15. Typical (relational) ERD

16. MongoDB ERD

17. We will build a library management
application
http://www.flickr.com/photos/somegeekintn/3484353131/

18. First step in any application
Determine your entities

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• Library Patrons (users)
• Books (card catalog)
• Authors
• Publishers
Library Management Application
Entities

20. In a relational based app
We would start by doing schema
design

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• Users
• Books
• Authors
• Publishers
MongoDB Collections

22. Working with MongoDB

23. No common programming language
so we are using the MongoDB shell

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> var user = {
username : "fred.jones",
first_name : "fred",
last_name : "jones"
}
Start with an Object
(or array, hash, dict, etc)

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> use library
> db.users.insert(user)
Insert the Record
No database or collection creation needed

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> db.users.findOne()
{
_id : ObjectId("50804d0bd94ccab2da652599"),
username : "fred.jones",
first_name : "fred",
last_name : "jones"
}
Querying for the user

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• _id is the primary key in MongoDB
• Automatically created as an ObjectId if not
provided
• Any unique immutable value could be used
• Automatically indexed
_id

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• ObjectId is a special 12 byte value
• Guaranteed to be unique across your cluster
• ObjectId("50804d0bd94ccab2da652599")
ObjectId
Timestamp Machine Pid Increment
50804d0b d94cca b2da 652599

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> db.author.insert({
first_name : "j.r.r.",
last_name : "tolkien",
bio : "J.R.R. Tolkien (1892.1973), beloved
throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit and
The Lord of the Rings, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon
at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow
of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. His
chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early
English written tradition, but even as he studied
these classics he was creating a set of his own."
})
Creating an Author

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> db.books.insert({
title : "fellowship of the ring, the",
author : ObjectID("507ffbb1d94ccab2da652597"),
language : "english",
genre : [ "fantasy", "adventure" ],
publication : {
name : "george allen & unwin",
location : "London",
date : ISODate("1954-07-21T00:00:00Z")
}
})
Creating a Book

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> db.books.findOne(
{ language : "english" },
{ genre : 1 })
{
"_id" : ObjectID("50804391d94ccab2da652598"),
"genre" : [
"fantasy",
"adventure"
]
}
Multiple Values per Key

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> db.books.findOne(
{ genre : "fantasy" },
{ title : 1 })
{
"_id" : ObjectID("50804391d94ccab2da652598"),
"title" : "fellowship of the ring, the"
}
Querying for key with
multiple values

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> db.books.findOne({}, { publication : 1 })
{
"_id" : ObjectID("50804391d94ccab2da652598"),
"publication" : {
"name" : "george allen & unwin",
"location" : "London",
"date" : ISODate("1954-07-21T00:00:00Z")
}
}
Nested Values

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> db.books.update(
{ _id : ObjectID("50804391d94ccab2da652598") },
{ $set : {
isbn : "0547928211",
pages : 432
}}
)
True agile development.
Simply Change how you work with the
data and the database follows
Update Books

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> db.books.findOne()
{
"_id" : ObjectId("50804391d94ccab2da652598"),
"author" : ObjectId("507ffbb1d94ccab2da652597"),
"genre" : [ "fantasy", "adventure" ],
"isbn" : "0547928211",
"language" : "english",
"pages" : 432,
"publication" : {
"name" : "george allen & unwin",
"location" : "London",
"date" : ISODate("1954-07-21T00:00:00Z")
},
"title" : "fellowship of the ring, the"
}
Update Books

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> db.books.ensureIndex({ title : 1 })
> db.books.ensureIndex({ genre : 1 }) // multikey
> db.books.ensureIndex({ "publication.date" : 1 })
Creating Indexes

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> db.books.findOne({ title : /^fell/ })
{
"_id" : ObjectId("50804391d94ccab2da652598"),
"author" : ObjectId("507ffbb1d94ccab2da652597"),
"genre" : [ "fantasy", "adventure" ],
"isbn" : "0395082544",
"language" : "english",
"pages" : 432,
"publication" : {
"name" : "george allen & unwin",
"location" : "London",
"date" : ISODate("1954-07-21T00:00:00Z")
},
"title" : "fellowship of the ring, the"
}
Querying with RegEx

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> db.books.insert({
title : "two towers, the",
author : ObjectID("507ffbb1d94ccab2da652597"),
language : "english",
isbn : "034523510X",
genre : [ "fantasy", "adventure" ],
page : 447,
publication : {
name : "george allen & unwin",
location : "London",
date : ISODate("1954-11-11T00:00:00Z")
}
})
Adding a Few More Books

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> db.books.find(
{ author : ObjectId("507ffbb1d94ccab2da652597") })
.sort({ "publication.date" : -1 })
.limit(1)
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5080d33ed94ccab2da65259d"),
"title" : "return of the king, the",
"author" : ObjectId("507ffbb1d94ccab2da652597"),
"language" : "english",
"isbn" : "0345248295",
"genre" : [ "fantasy", "adventure" ],
"pages" : 544,
"publication" : {
"name" : "george allen & unwin",
"location" : "London",
"date" : ISODate("1955-10-20T00:00:00Z")
}
}
Cursors

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> var page_num = 3;
> var results_per_page = 10;
> var cursor = db.books.find()
.sort({ publication_date : -1 })
.skip((page_num – 1) * results_per_page)
.limit(results_per_page);
Paging

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> var book = db.books.findOne(
{ title : "return of the king, the" })
> db.author.findOne({ _id : book.author })
{
"_id" : ObjectId("507ffbb1d94ccab2da652597"),
"first_name" : "j.r.r.",
"last_name" : "tolkien",
"bio" : "J.R.R. Tolkien (1892.1973), beloved throughout
the world as the creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the
Rings, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of
Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his
retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic
aspects of the early English written tradition, but even as
he studied these classics he was creating a set of his own."
}
Finding Author by Book

42. MongoDB Drivers

43. Real Applications are not built in
the shell

44. MongoDB has native bindings
for over 12 languages

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• Official Support for 12 languages
• Community drivers for many more
• Drivers connect applications to mongo servers
• Drivers translate BSON into native types
• mongo shell is not a driver, but works like one in some ways
• Installed using typical means (npm, pecl, gem, pip, nuget)
MongoDB Drivers

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docs.mongodb.org

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Online Training at MongoDB University

50. Questions?

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53. Software Engineer, MongoDB Inc.
Robert Stam
Thank You