MongoDB Benchmarks
There are no official MongoDB benchmarks because the developers don’t believe they accurately represent real world usage. This is true because you can only really get an idea of performance [...]
Checking if a document exists – MongoDB slow findOne vs find
One of the biggest optimisations to make MongoDB writes faster is to avoid moving documents by doing updates in place to a preallocated document. You only want to preallocate if [...]
MongoDB schema design pitfalls
One of things that makes MongoDB easy to get started with is you don’t have to think about schema design – just shove data in and it’ll let you query [...]
Full text search in MongoDB
Full text search was demoed live at the MongoSV conference in December 2012 and as of 25th December 2012, is now available in the nightly builds. With the 2.3.2 unstable [...]
MongoDB log rotations can cause crashes
Logging is great for debugging but you have to deal with periodically rotating the files so they don’t become massive. We pipe all our logs into Papertrail so we can [...]
Incident troubleshooting hints with logging
You’ve been woken up with an alert and after getting to your laptop the first step is to find out what is going on. Ideally, you have quite specific alerting [...]
Switching to MongoDB and auto increment
I originally prototyped our server monitoring service, Server Density, using MySQL, a database I’d been using for years on other projects. One standard feature is the auto_increment field property which [...]
Monitoring the MongoDB shard balancer status
When you are using sharding built into MongoDB, it automatically manages moving data around and keeping things balanced. You can view the current status of the cluster to see where [...]
MongoDB with Amazon’s EBS and Provisioned IOPS
This is a guest post by Charity Majors, a full stack systems geek who is currently building exciting things at Parse. She likes sed and awk and peaty scotches. We [...]
Does everyone hate MongoDB?
For a guaranteed surge of traffic and to hit the Hacker News homepage, all you need to do is write about why you hate MongoDB and/or migrated to some other [...]