MongoDB is the New MySQL

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 MongoDB is...

• a schema-less, document-oriented database

• open-source (server: GPL, drivers: Apache)
• built on C++
• supported commercially by 10gen

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 Why MongoDB?

• Fast
• Highly scalable: replication, sharding
• Open-source
• runs on Windows

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 Trade-offs

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 ACID

• Atomicity - A transaction is all or nothing

• Consistency - Only valid data is written to
the database
• Isolation - Pretend all transactions are
happening serially and the data is correct
• Durability - What you write is what you get

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 BASE

• Basically Available - system seems to work

all the time
• Soft state - it doesn’t have to be consistent
all the time
• Eventually consistent - becomes consistent
at some later time

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 memcached
Scalability & Performance

key-value stores mongoDB

RDBMS

Depth of Functionality
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 Programming

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 ActiveModel?

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 Persistence

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 Querying

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 Named Scopes!

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 Named Scopes!

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 Named Scopes!

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 Callbacks
before_create
before_destroy
before_save
before_update
before_validation
after_create
after_destroy
after_save
after_update
after_validation

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 Validation

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 Administration

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 Replication

• M -> S
• M -> S*
• Replica sets [aka clusters] coming in v.1.6

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 Sharding

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 Questions?
Radamanthus Batnag
rad@infinite.ly

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 Links

• http://www.mongodb.org/
• http://www.mongoid.org
• http://highscalability.com/drop-acid-and-
think-about-data
• http://www.thenetworkadministrator.com/
MongoDB_MySQL.htm

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