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Schema Basics
Schema Basics
Schema Basics
Before exploring the more advanced schemas in this book it’s important to revisit schema basics. In this chapter we will explore the basic relationships from tradition...
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Schema Design
Schema Design
Read Ratio to Write Ratio
Determining if your application is read heavy or write heavy will lead to how you design your schema. If your application is read heavy, you might want to ...
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Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
One of the questions that comes up very often from new users of MongoDB and document databases is how to do schema design. The concepts of embedding and linking document...
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Sharding
Sharding
Sharding
Sharding is one of the more complex features provided by MongoDB and getting comfortable with it can take some time. Sharding is a mechanism for scaling writes by distributing t...
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Materialized Path Category Hierarchy
Materialized Path Category Hierarchy
Materialized Path Category Hierarchy
The nested categories schema design pattern targets the hierarchical tree structures traditionally found in a product cat...
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Metadata
Metadata
Metadata
Metadata is data that describes and provides information about other data. A classic example is the information about a digital photo, such as the ISO settings, resolution, pixe...