Mongo in Seconds!

A brief introduction to MongoDB and why you might use it!

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1. manchester Jacob Clark - Welcome/Q&A Martin Rue - Congo Derrick Rethans - New MongoDB 2.4 Features Ben Nutall - MongoDB for Developers Review THEN….
2. Mongo in Seconds…
3. Mongo in Seconds… • Databases • A container for everything • Collections • In essence, just a table in RDBMS form • Documents • Data. Essentially rows and columns. • Cursors • Ability to manipulate data without actually pulling it down
4. Why Mongo? • It’s general purpose • It’s flexible (Schema-less) • For the times when mismatch data is important • Full text search (2.4) • Experimental feature in MongoDB 2.4 allows full text search across collections • It’s durable & less prone to data loss • MongoDB supports journaling, sharding, and replication out the box.
5. Replacement for Relational DBs? No.
6. Questions? Fire away! twitter.com/imjacobclark