Whether you're building a social media site or an internal-use
enterprise application, this hands-on guide shows you the connection
between MongoDB and the business problems it's designed to solve. You'll
learn how to apply MongoDB design patterns to several challenging
domains, such as ecommerce, content management, and online gaming. Using
Python and JavaScript code examples, you'll discover how MongoDB lets
you scale your data model while simplifying the development process.
Many businesses launch NoSQL databases without understanding the
techniques for using their features most effectively. This book
demonstrates the benefits of document embedding, polymorphic schemas,
and other MongoDB patterns for tackling specific big data use cases,
including:
- Operational intelligence: Perform real-time analytics of business
data
- Ecommerce: Use MongoDB as a product catalog master or inventory
management system
- Content management: Learn methods for storing content nodes,
binary assets, and discussions
- Online advertising networks: Apply techniques for frequency
capping ad impressions, and keyword targeting and bidding
- Social networking: Learn how to store a complex social graph,
modeled after Google+
- Online gaming: Provide concurrent access to character and world
data for a multiplayer role-playing game