My M101P: MongoDB for Developers course

Below are some of my notes from the MongoDB course i did. This list will grow as the course progresses.

Online MongoDb Course

The course video can be found here:
https://education.mongodb.com/courses

Source code and further example code
https://github.com/rtomaszewski/mongo-course

A quick function summary of the mongo shell and API
http://www.hodgin.ca/downloads/Mongo%20Shell%20Cheat%20Sheet.pdf

Shell documentation
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/method/
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/operator/

Pymongo docs
http://api.mongodb.org/python/current/
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pymongo/

Week #1

• Quick summary of RDMS and NoSQL MongoDB
• You can start experimenting with the data base by installing it first: Simple MongoDB tutorial. For the course you will need to install the latest version of the db although.
• Connect pymongo to bottle framework
• Exercise 2 and 3 - the order of functions

Week #2

• MongoDB supported features
• Mongo shell
• How to search for documents in collection
• More advance search queries
• Pretty printing
• The same document attribute can have different type in a single collection
• Document attribute that is an array of strings
• Nested documents and the dot notation in find
• Cursors in MongoDB and mongo shell Javascrip API
• How to count documents in collection
• Modifying documents in the data base
• Insert and update operation
• Update on multiple records inside collection
• Removing data
• Updating _ID document attribute in MongoDB
• How to find out how many documents were affected by the last instruction
• Pymongo code example to manipulate data

Week #3

• Multi key indexes
• How to use GridFS to store big files in MongoDB