MongoDB Performance Tuning: Optimizing MongoDB Databases and their Applications

About the Authors xv
About the Technical Reviewer xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction xxi
Part I: Methods and Tools 1
Chapter 1: Methodical Performance Tuning 3
Chapter 2: MongoDB Architecture and Concepts 13
Chapter 3: Tools of the Trade 33
Part II: Application and Database Design 65
Chapter 4: Schema Modelling 67
Chapter 5: Indexing 89
Part III: Tuning MongoDB Code 121
Chapter 6: Query Tuning 123
Chapter 7: Tuning Aggregation Pipelines 155
Chapter 8: Inserts, Updates, and Deletes 185
Chapter 9: Transactions 203
Chapter 10: Server Monitoring 221
Part IV: Server Tuning 235
Chapter 11: Memory Tuning 237
Chapter 12: Disk IO 255
Chapter 13: Replica Sets and Atlas 293
Chapter 14: Sharding 315
Index 343

Use this fast and complete guide to optimize the performance of MongoDB databases and the applications that depend on them. You will be able to turbo-charge the performance of your MongoDB applications to provide a better experience for your users, reduce your running costs, and avoid application growing pains. MongoDB is the world’s most popular document database and the foundation for thousands of mission-critical applications. This book helps you get the best possible performance from MongoDB.
MongoDB Performance Tuning takes a methodical and comprehensive approach to performance tuning that begins with application and schema design and goes on to cover optimization of code at all levels of an application. The book also explains how to configure MongoDB hardware and cluster configuration for optimal performance. The systematic approach in the book helps you treat the true causes of performance issues and get the best return on your tuninginvestment. Even when you’re under pressure and don’t know where to begin, simply follow the method in this book to set things right and get your MongoDB performance back on track.

What You Will Learn

• Apply a methodical approach to MongoDB performance tuning

• Understand how to design an efficient MongoDB application

• Optimize MongoDB document design and indexing strategies

• Tune MongoDB queries, aggregation pipelines, and transactions

• Optimize MongoDB server resources: CPU, memory, disk

• Configure MongoDB Replica sets and Sharded clusters for optimal performance

Who This Book Is For

Developers and administrators of high-performance MongoDB applications who want to be sure they are getting the best possible performance from their MongoDB system. For developers who wish to create applications that are fast, scalable,and cost-effective. For administrators who want to optimize their MongoDB server and hardware configuration.