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MongoDB is an open source, high-performance, schema-free, document-oriented database written in the C++ programming language. It manages collections of BSON documents that can be nested in complex hierarchies and still be easy to query and index, which allows many applications to store data in a natural way that matches their native data types and structures.

  1. The Comments Conundrum

    One of the most common questions we get is: I have a collection of blog posts and each post has an array of comments. How do I get… …all comments by a given author …the most recent comments …the most popular commenters? And so on. The answer to this has ...

  2. Hacking Chess: Data Munging

    This is a supplement to the Hacking Chess with the MongoDB Pipeline. This post has instructions for rolling your own data sets from chess games. Download a collection of chess games you like. I’m using 1132 wins in less than 10 moves, but any of them should work. These ...

  3. Hacking Chess with the MongoDB Pipeline

    MongoDB’s new aggegation framework is now available in the nightly build! This post demonstrates some of its capabilities by using it to analyze chess games. Make sure you have a the “Development Release (Unstable)” nightly running before trying out the stuff in this post. The aggregation framework will be ...

  4. Querying for Timestamps Using ObjectIds

    ObjectIds contain a timestamp, which tells you when the document was created. Because the _id field is always indexed, that means you have a “free” index on your “created at” time (unless you have persnickety requirements for creation times, like resolutions of less than a second, synchronization across app servers ...

  5. SQL to MongoDB: An Updated Mapping

    The aggregation pipeline code has finally been merged into the main development branch and is scheduled for release in 2.2. It lets you combine simple operations (like finding the max or min, projecting out fields, taking counts or averages) into a pipeline of operations, making a lot of things ...

  6. On working at 10gen

    10gen is trying to hire a gazillion people, so I’m averaging two interviews a day (bleh). A lot of people have asked what it’s like to work on MongoDB, so I thought I’d write a bit about it. A Usual Day Get in around 10am. Check if ...

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