My previous posts on MongoDB have been pretty un-.NETty, in that I have focused almost entirely on how to work the DB through its JavaScript API. To remedy that, I shall write a few short posts on how to get rolling with MongoDB using NoRM, the coolest C# driver for MongoDB at the moment. First [...]
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Jul 162010
Mar 312010
One thing I started to think about after having looked at MongoDB was how to model things that are somehow connected – without the use of foreign keys and the ability to join stuff. When working with documents, you generally just embed the data where it belongs. But what if I have the following documents: [...]
Mar 192010
In MongoDB, there’s no way to lock a database, collection, or document. The ability to work without locking is a requirement for any db that wishes to be horizontally scalable, and obviously this imposes some limitations and/or possibilities (depending on your point of view ). If you want all the goodness that document-orientation brings, it [...]
Mar 072010
In my first post about MongoDB, I touched querying very lightly. Querying is of course pretty important to most systems, so it’s fair to dedicate a separate post to the subject. Querying in MongoDB works by sending a document to the server, e.g. in the following snippet I create a document with a post ID [...]
This post will touch a little bit on the mechanism used for references, and then a few thoughts on how document-orientation relates to OO. Now – if you, like me, are into OO and normalized object models – the weirdness begins….. or maybe not?! (actually, I am not sure yet ) In an OO world [...]
Mar 032010
Having experienced a lot of pain using RDBMSs (1) as a default choice of persistence, having read a couple of blog posts about MongoDB, and being generally interested in widening my horizon, I decided to check out MongoDB. This post is a write-as-I-go summary of the information I have gathered from the following places: MongoDB [...]