MongoDB

MongoDB Database Management Software is a document-based, all-purpose distributed database for modern apps.

Overview

Businesses today are faced with countless challenges, including competition, changing markets, customers’ expectations, compliance, pricing pressure, and more. So, there’s a constant need to build new applications that automate the processes involved in these changes. Hence the need to manage your database effectively.

MongoDB was founded in 2007 by a team behind DoubleClick. It was initially called 10gen and was originally built to handle the scale and agility needed for internet advertising. The database management software is a flexible, scalable NoSQL document-based store that allows querying and indexing. That means it stores data embedded in JSON-like name-value documents in a de-normalized format. 

This format is different from a relational database that stores data in normalized tables with fixed schemas. However, MongoDB does not store JSON, but Binary JSON (BSON). The BSON format adds an extension to the JSON string and tracks each document to make it easy to find.

It is the most popular NoSQL database as developers often choose it for applications that use a large volume of data. MongoDB can generate a geospatial, multi-modal graph, full text, and B-tree indexes. It generates the right type of index from the type of data provided. It often replaces relational databases for its wide range of use. Albeit despite its ease of use, there is no universal document database.

Product Detail

MongoDB Database Management Software uses a powerful, rich, and expressive query language. It allows the user to sort and filter any field within a document, even if they are nested. The software supports text search, graph search, geo-based search, and other modern use-cases. Queries in MongoDB are easy to compose because they exist in the JSON form. Users do not have string characters together to generate a dynamic SQL query.

MongoDB Database Management Software has more power than relational databases. The software is a data platform with a library of tools to make data management easy for everyone. It is useful for data scientists, analysts, or developers. It uses charts as the fastest visualization method for live data in its document model. It also serves as a connector to combine data from other databases. The software provides visual editing tools that help users to manipulate data and analyze performance.

MongoDB Database Management Software is fully managed in the cloud. The software is a global, multi-cloud database for modern applications cloud service. It has more than 70 cloud regions across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It offers cross-cloud mobility, so users are not stuck to one vendor but can choose a cloud partner that matches their business needs.

The software’s integrations and services are compatible with your current and future features and developments. Most agile teams would rather focus on building apps and not manage databases, so the software offers the speed they need. MongoDB guarantees automation and scalability and is compliant with the toughest privacy and data security standards.

MongoDB Database Management Software offers automated data recovery and distributed fault tolerance. The software is designed to be resilient, with a guaranteed uptime of SLA 99.995 percent regardless of the cloud provider. Without manual intervention, it automatically performs failover within seconds if a primary node becomes unavailable. Although it is unlikely, some users like to be prepared for total region outage. In such cases, the software ensures that there are multiple copies of the same data across different database servers to provide fault tolerance against the loss of a database server. It allows users to restore, configure, and query point-in-time backups.

MongoDB Database Management Software allows users to scale their database as they choose. They can adjust memory, storage capacity, or instance size of their clusters without fear of application downtime. The software allows provisioning and payment for required resources when necessary. With  MongoDB, users can easily modify the database after deployment. They can add more storage, analytics or read-only nodes, and more. The software automatically carries out minor version upgrades and Improvements Patches .

However, some versions allow users to decide when they should be implemented. Plus, MongoDB provides a testing environment that allows users to try out new features and check compatibility. Users decide the number of shards and sharding strategy that is right for them. MongoDB enables full automation management and tracks the resources used in real-time to adjust database storage and size.

MongoDB Database Management Software allows users to build fast, useful, full-text search features on their data. They can leverage advanced search features without bothering about managing additional infrastructure. The software ensures that users do not have to set up, manage, or scale a different search platform to replicate data.

MongoDB Database Management Software provides full performance visibility. Users are free from database diagnostics and monitoring as they receive custom alerts, historical metrics, and real-time performance tracking. It allows users to tier data across cloud object storage and fully managed databases that can be queried through a single endpoint. The software archive historical data. Thus, allowing users to save cost on transactional and operational data without compromising performance. 

MongoDB shows the hottest collections, disk usage, slowest queries, and IOPS. It sends notifications when server usage, database operations, or other metrics that affect a user's performance exceed the pre-set threshold. Plus, the user decides how to get these notifications, text, email, or any channel that they are used to. The software helps to visualize operations that are running slowly with their KPI. It quickly identifies query patterns and outliers from reviewing historical operations.

MongoDB Database Management Software provides an easy way to build real-time applications with database triggers. It can automate data management with scheduled tasks or specific events. The database management tool listens to these events and responds in real-time. Triggers make it easy to implement complex data connections with less data-handling code. It could involve an automatic information update in documents as a result of changes in related documents. An example includes updating a customer’s purchase history with each transaction.

MongoDB Database Management Software protects data with built-in security controls. It integrates with the security protocols and compliance standards that a user currently has for encryption, authorization, authentication, and more. The software deploys dedicated clusters with dedicated firewalls in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Team members can access it only through VPC Peering or an IP whitelist. It allows users to assign roles to team members to grant them access based on the description of their roles. The software uses Transport layer Security (TLS), to encrypt all network traffic.

Recap

MongoDB helps businesses with a reliable database that helps businesses cope with their daily challenges. It is a multi-cloud database for modern apps with over 70 cloud regions across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Regardless of the cloud provider, the software guarantees an uptime of SLA 99.995 percent and replicates your data to provide fault tolerance against the data loss.