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Feb 12, 2016

MongoDB® Multikey Indexes & Index Intersection Bounds

MongoDB® has great support for arrays and affords a lot of flexibility in your document mode. For example, you can embed...

Feb 5, 2016

MongoDB® Regex, Index & Performance

MongoDB® supports regular expressions using the $regex operator. However these MongoDB regex queries have a downside, all but one type of regex...

Jan 14, 2016

The Case for MongoDB® Hashed Indexes

In addition to scalar indexes (ascending, descending), MongoDB® also supports ‘hashed’ indexes. When you use a hashed index on a...

Jan 8, 2016

Introduction to Redis® Data Structures: Hashes

Redis® hashes are (intuitively enough!) hashes that map string names to string values. They are essentially named containers of unique...

Oct 4, 2015

Introduction to Redis® Data Structures: Sets

Redis (Remote Dictionary Server) is an immensely popular in-memory key-value store which also provides for optional durability, partitioning, replication, and...

Aug 24, 2015

Index Prefix Compression in MongoDB 3.0 WiredTiger

MongoDB 3.0 with WiredTiger introduces a new feature called ‘Index Prefix Compression’ which greatly reduces the memory consumed by the...

Aug 10, 2015

Comparing MongoDB® Performance on Public Clouds: AWS, Azure & DigitalOcean

So before you invest a lot of time and energy into a particular cloud it is important to understand the...

May 26, 2015

Enabling Data Compression in MongoDB 3.0

MongoDB 3.0 with the WiredTiger storage engine enables you to transparently compress the data stored in your database. This is...

May 20, 2015

MongoDB® SSL with Self-Signed Certificates in Node.js

ScaleGrid supports SSL configuration for MongoDB and can be easily set up, as outlined in our MongoDB SSL post. It...

Apr 13, 2015

How to Benchmark MongoDB® with YCSB?

While talking about system performance characteristics, most DBaaS providers limit themselves to providing information about the hardware that their systems...

Mar 12, 2015

How To Test Your MongoDB® Application Upgrades?

You have chosen MongoDB® as your application database, and probably have a lot of production data in your database already....

Feb 23, 2015

MongoDB® on Azure: How To Choose the Right Instance Type?

Azure is now a popular platform to deploy and manage MongoDB® servers. Once you have chosen MongoDB hosting on Azure, one...

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