Getting to Know MongoDB

This is the slide deck I use to introduce hackers to MongoDB when I have 2-5 minutes and I'm presenting at a hackathon. Hat tip to @samantharitter for the slide deck base, since all the wonderful design and most of the content is hers.

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7. Creating Documents ‹4VUNV+)KVJ\TLU[Z Z\WWVY[YPJO MSL_PISLVIQLJ[ ZJOLTH UV[HISLZ > course = { title : ‘Operating Systems’, num : ‘318’, dept : ‘COS’, staff : { prof : ‘Kai Li’, TAs : [ ‘Yida Wang’, ‘Scott Erickson’, ‘Aaron Blankstein’ ] } };
8. Simple Document Ops ‹*YLH[L ‹9LHK ‹<WKH[L ‹+LSL[L > db.courses.find({ prof : ‘Kevin Wayne’ }); > db.courses.insert( doc ); > db.courses.update({ dept : ‘COS’ }, { $set : { dist : ‘QR’ }}); > db.courses.remove();
9. Sounds great! I\[OV^KV0NL[Z[HY[LK&
10. > tar –z xvf mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.4.8.tgz > cd mongodb-osx-i386-2.4.8/bin > mkdir –p /data/db > ./mongod 1. Download mongo ^^^TVUNVKIVYNKV^USVHKZ <UWHJRHUKY\U!
11. 2. Get a driver ‹7`[OVU ‹9\I` ‹1H]H ‹7/7 HUKTHU`V[OLYZ > pip install pymongo > gem install mongo > pecl install mongo KV^USVHK'TVUNVKIVYNLJVZ`Z[LTKYP]LYZQH]H
12. 3. Get coding! from pymongo import MongoClient def main(): # connect to the db connection = MongoClient() db = connection["hello_database"] collection = db["messages"] # create and save a document to the db doc = { "message" : "Hello, world!" } collection.save(doc) # get it back and print it out! result = collection.find_one() print result if __name__ == "__main__": main() FREE CODE!
13. ;OHURZ°°° www.mongodb.org https://github.com/mongodb/mongo amalia.hawkins@mongodb.com °