MongoDB Walkthrough

Hisory of Mongo DB:

• Name from "humongous"  is an open source document-oriented NoSQL database system.
• Stores structured data as JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas (MongoDB calls the format BSON)
• Development of MongoDB began in October 2007 by 10gen.

Main features:

• Ad hoc queries
• Indexing
• Replication
• Load balancing
• MongoDB scales horizontally using sharding[8].
• File storage
• Aggregation
• MapReduce can be used for batch processing of data and aggregation operations.
• Server-side JavaScript execution
• Capped collections

Use cases & production deployments

•     Archiving and event logging
•     Document and Content Management Systems
•          content management
•      ECommerce (often in combination with an RDBMS for the final order processing and accounting).
•         Gaming
•     High volume problems.
•     Mobile
•     Operational data store of a web site
•     Projects using iterative/agile development methodologies
•     Real-time stats/analytics

Mongo DB Viewer
Few top gui are :

• RockMongo: Browser based Interface
• JMongoBrowser
• MongoVUE: Desktop based client