MongoDB Essential Training

3h 50mBeginner2022-12-13

Authors

Naomi Pentrel

Developer Content Professional

Course details

MongoDB is a NoSQL document database with an expressive and intuitive query language. While MongoDB is easy to get started with, there is more to using MongoDB than storing and retrieving JSON documents. In this course, Naomi Pentrel teaches MongoDB essentials, covering CRUD operations, aggregation pipelines, and drivers as well as advanced database features and database administration topics. If you’re looking for the knowledge to run MongoDB effectively in production, how to perform advanced queries, and how to administer databases, join Naomi in this course.

Skills covered

MongoDBDatabase DevelopmentDatabase ManagementEssential TrainingOpen SourceSoftware Development

Concepts

Introduction

An introduction to MongoDB
Features of MongoDB

Install MongoDB

Self-hosted vs. managed MongoDB
Enterprise vs. Community
Install MongoDB on Mac
Install MongoDB on Windows
Install MongoDB on Linux

Set Up Your Database

Mongod
Replica set
Set up a replica set from the command line
Set up a replica set with config files
Import the sample data
Debug

Working with MongoDB

The document model
Namespaces, collections, documents
MongoDB Query Language
Indexes
Challenge - Indexes
Solution - Indexes

CRUD Operations

insertOne and insertMany
findOne and find
Comparison operators
Logical operators
Sort, skip, limit
updateOne and updateMany
Arrays
Transactions
$expr
Challenge - Create app
Solution - Create app

Aggregation Pipelines

An overview of stages
$group
$bucket
$unwind
$merge and $out
$function
$lookup
Performance
Challenge - Write aggregation pipelines
Solution - Write aggregation pipelines

Data Modeling

Relational vs. document
Data modeling
Flexible schema
Challenge - Create a data model
Solution - Create a data model

Drivers

Drivers
Connecting with Python
Connecting with JavaScript
Connecting with PHP

Conclusion

Advancing with MongoDB