This talk was a general overview of MongoDB from the operational perspective, given at MongoHamburg hosted by Xing.

1. Operational MongoDB
Mitch Pirtle
MongoMeetup @Xing - June 27, 2011
Hamburg, Germany

5. One thing real quick.

7. About this session

8. About the speaker
New Yorker Torino, Italy
Contributor to many FOSS projects (Joomla! founder)
Budding author
MongoDB for Web Development
Extreme Joomla! Performance
High-traffic projects (Jetsetter, MTV, Food Networks)
Husband, dad, skate punk, metalcore bassist, coach

13. What is MongoDB?

14. What is MongoDB?
Document database

15. What is MongoDB?
Document database
Wicked fast speed

16. What is MongoDB?
Document database
Wicked fast speed
Great for scale

17. What is MongoDB?
Document database
Wicked fast speed
Great for scale
Low administration requirements

18. What is MongoDB?
Document database
Wicked fast speed
Great for scale
Low administration requirements
Encourages simple code, fewer bugs

19. Community Resources
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/
Community

20. MongoDB Language Center
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Drivers

21. Development Tracker
http://jira.mongodb.org

22. MongoDB Cookbook
http://cookbook.mongodb.org/

23. Explore MongoDB @Github
http://github.com/search?q=mongo

25. Scaling Facilities

26. Sharding
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/
Sharding

27. Replication
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/
Replication

28. Atomic operations
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Atomic
+Operations

30. Honorable mention: GridFS

31. GridFS
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/GridFS

32. General Administration

33. Getting Started
$ apt-get install mongodb-10gen
$ /etc/init.d/mongodb start

34. Durability and Repair

35. Journaling
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/
Durability+and+Repair

36. Backups

37. Backups
Snapshots with journaling

38. Backups
Snapshots with journaling
Cold backups (offline)

39. Backups
Snapshots with journaling
Cold backups (offline)
Hot backups (write lock, fsync, backup)

40. Backups
Snapshots with journaling
Cold backups (offline)
Hot backups (write lock, fsync, backup)
Exports

41. Backups
Snapshots with journaling
Cold backups (offline)
Hot backups (write lock, fsync, backup)
Exports
Slave backups
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Backups

42. Import and Export Tools

43. Import and Export Tools
mongoimport / mongoexport

44. Import and Export Tools
mongoimport / mongoexport
mongodump / mongorestore

45. Import and Export Tools
mongoimport / mongoexport
mongodump / mongorestore
bsondump
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Import
+Export+Tools

46. Admin Shell Tricks

47. Admin Shell Tricks
help

48. Admin Shell Tricks
help
show dbs

49. Admin Shell Tricks
help
show dbs
show collections

50. Admin Shell Tricks
help
show dbs
show collections
db.copyDatabase(fromdb, todb, fromhost)

51. Admin Shell Tricks
help
show dbs
show collections
db.copyDatabase(fromdb, todb, fromhost)
...and many more examples:
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/DBA
+Operations+from+the+Shell

53. Questions and Excuses

54. Thanks!
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