I was working on a section on the gooey innards of journaling for The Definitive Guide, but then I realized it’s an implementation detail that most people won’t care about. However, I had all of these nice diagrams just laying around. Good idea, Patrick! So, how does journaling work? Your disk has your data filesContinue reading “How MongoDB’s Journaling Works”
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If it quacks like a RDBMS…
MongoDB feels a lot like a relational database: you can think of documents as rows, do ad hoc queries, and create indexes on fields. There are, however, a ton of differences due to the data model, scalability considerations, and MongoDB’s youth. This can lead to some not-so-pleasant surprises for users. We (the developers) try toContinue reading “If it quacks like a RDBMS…”
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