Mongo DB

For Natural
Developemnt
@tommychheng

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 Who uses it?

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 Why?

• NoSQL trend?
• Scalability?
• Natural Development!

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 Compare
SQL MongoDB

Schema Fixed Dynamic

BSON Documents/
Data Model Rows/Tables
Collections

Primitives+Arrays/
Data Types Primitives
Hashes

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 SQL Example

Documents Revisions
Tags
title author
name
age updated_at
document_id
document_id

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 MongoDB Example
document = {title: 'A Tale of Two Cities',
age: 1,
revisions: [{author: “tommy”,
updated_at: new Date(’02-20-2012’)}],
tags: ['MongoDB','nosql']}

• BSON data structure naturally maps to

most programming languages hash object
• ORM can just be a thin layer

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 Mongo Install
• http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/
Quickstart
• Chef recipe available
• http://github.com/schisamo/
chef_cookbooks/
• Start server: ./mongod
• Run console: mongo
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 How to use in Ruby?

• Easy to use in Rails or Sinatra

• mongo+mongo_ext gem
• mongo_mapper gem
• http://github.com/jnunemaker/
mongomapper

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 Mongo Help

• http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-
user
• http://groups.google.com/group/
mongomapper

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 MongoMapper Models
• No Migrations!
• AR Validations
• AR Callbacks
• Testing using Factory Girl
• Rails 3?
• fork which uses use ActiveModel, see
mailinglist
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 MongoMapper Model
class Article
include MongoMapper::Document
key :profile_id, ObjectId, :required => true
key :title, String, required => true
key :age, Integer

has_many :revisions, :class_name => 'ArticleRevisions'

belongs_to :profile
end

class ArticleRevision
include MongoMapper:EmbeddedDocument
key :profile_id, ObjectId
timestamps!
end

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 ActiveRecord-style Save
article = Article.new({:profile_id => p.id,
:title => “hello”,
:age => 1})

article.revisions <<
ArticleRevision.new({:profile_id => p.id,
:updated_at => Date.new(‘Jan 1 2012’)})

article.save

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 ActiveRecord-style Querying

articles = Article.all({:title => “hello”,

:age => 1})

article = Article.find(‘4b85bb3fea04805c077e84e9’)

article = Article.first

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 CouchDB or MongoDB?
CouchDB MongoDB
One big database Database has
Data Modeling
for all documents. many collections.
Interface HTTP REST sockets
Find by id
Find by id
Querying map/reduce JS
dynamic JS queries
functions

Concurrency MVCC Update in place

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 Limitations
• Memory Mapped file:
• 32-bit 4GB limit, use 64-bit
• Atomic updates only at document level
• Solve by nesting related data in document
• MongoDB lacks:
• transactions
• CouchDB-style MVCC revisioning
• http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Atomic
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 Author

• Blog http://tommy.chheng.com
• Twitter @tommychheng
• Side project: http://nextsprocket.com/
• using mongoDB + mongo_mapper!

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