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Full-Text Search in MongoDB with Relevance Scores
Do you know about MongoDB ? Imagine we are building an app and want users to search by ingredients or dish names (like chocolate or zucchini bread) and get the…
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Clean Up Old Data Automatically with MongoDB TTL Indexes
With Big Data, comes well … a lot of data. But what if some of that data is only really useful within a certain timeframe?
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Scaling MongoDB with Sharding: Setup Best Practices
In our , we covered the basics of sharding (how MongoDB distributes data across multiple servers), why config servers are critical, and how balancing helps…
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Scaling MongoDB with Sharding: The Basics
When your database starts to outgrow its capacity, you’ve got two options: scale up or scale out. Scaling up means buying bigger, beefier servers with more…
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How to Change a MongoDB Primary to a Secondary
Maintaining a MongoDB Replica Set requires occasional maintenance and upgrades. Sometimes, this necessitates taking the primary node offline or converting it…
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Understanding the local Database in MongoDB
When you set up and initiate a in MongoDB, all databases and collections on the primary database are replicated to the secondary nodes. However, there is one…
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Getting Started with MongoDB on Docker: A Step-by-Step Guide
Are you eager to dive into MongoDB but unsure where to start? Docker provides a convenient way to set up MongoDB for local development, allowing you to…
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