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Oct 28, 2014

The Role of the DBA in NoSQL

What is the role of the Database Administrator (DBA) in the rapidly evolving world of NoSQL? A majority of the...

Aug 8, 2014

Understanding Durability & Write Safety in MongoDB®

Durability is the “D” in the MongoDB ACID properties (A – Atomicity, C – Consistency, I – Isolation), popularized by...

Jul 22, 2014

Implementing Pagination with MongoDB®, Express.js & Slush

MongoDB® accepts and provides access to data in the Javascript Object Notation (JSON) format, making it a perfect fit when dealing...

Jul 15, 2014

The Three A’s of MongoDB® Security – Authentication, Authorization & Auditing

MongoDB® has made impressive strides over the past 18 months. One of the MongoDB areas that’s seen the most significant improvement has...

May 20, 2014

Getting Started with MongoDB® and Mongoose

In this post, we’ll show you how to use Mongoose for your MongoDB® deployments to create a more straight-forward, schema-based solution to modeling...

May 6, 2014

MongoDB® on AWS: How to Choose the Right EC2 Instance Type for Your MongoDB Server?

Let’s face it. AWS has gotten incredibly complicated. A simple task like picking the right instance type for your MongoDB®...

Mar 13, 2014

Encrypting MongoDB® Data-at-Rest

MongoDB® is now the defacto database for a wide variety of applications, some of which, storing very sensitive data. When...

Feb 25, 2014

When to Use GridFS on MongoDB®?

GridFS is a simple file system abstraction on top of MongoDB®. If you’re familiar with Amazon S3, GridFS is a...

Jan 20, 2014

10 Tips to Improve Your MongoDB® Security

MongoDB® provides a number of constructs to improve the security of your data. The security of your data in MongoDB...

Nov 5, 2013

Automatically Age Out MongoDB® Collection Documents

One of the common scenarios in working with a database is to automatically prune some tables based on time. For...

Oct 18, 2013

Should You Enable MongoDB® Journaling?

MongoDB® uses an on-disk journal to guarantee write operations and provide crash resiliency. MongoDB also creates a journal for every...

Sep 30, 2013

NoSQL Trends – MongoDB®, Cassandra, CouchDB & Riak

NoSQL has been a pretty hot topic over the last few years with a number of contenders in the NoSQL...

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