MongoDB for Software Engineers

Software development managers, CTO, software architects, system architects, data architects and developers.

Software development and database design, experience with Linux and access to a Linux machine.

Module 1: Introduction to NoSQL

• CAP Theorem
• What are the main concerns with RDBMS (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL)
• Key-value stores
• Column Family stores
• Document DBs
• Map Reduce

Module 2: Introduction to MongoDB

• MongoDB product design and architecture
• MongoDB installation
• The Mongo Shell
• Basic Operations
• Lab: MongoDB installation and basic operations

Module 3: Data Model Design

• Documents and collections core concepts
• Data Model migration from rational DB to document store
• Data model best practices
• Lab: Data model design for the case

Module 4: CRUD

• Select
• Update
• Insert
• Delete
• Atomic Transactions
• Bulk Operations
• Lab: System implementation based on Java and MongoDB

Module 5: Tuning your code

• Indexing
• Query profiling
• The query optimizer
• Explain
• Lab: Profile and tune queries

Module 6: Backup, Security and Monitoring

• Dump
• Physical files backup
• Authentication
• Server status and system monitoring
• Lab: Understanding server performance metrics

Module 7: Scale and High Availability

• Data replication with replica sets
• Load distribution with sharding
• Performance best practices: leveraging scale to meet performance needs

Module 8: Advanced Querying and Leveraging Scale

• The Aggregation Framework
• Map Reduce
• Lab: Advanced querying using MongoDB