If you want to jump right into trying out replica sets, see Part 1: Master-Slave is so 2009. Replica sets are basically just master-slave with automatic failover. The idea is: you have a master and one or more slaves. If the master goes down, one of the slaves will automatically become the new master. The [...]
Replica sets are really cool and can be customized out the wazoo, so I’ll be doing a couple of posts on them (I have three written so far and I think I have a few more in there). If there’s any replica-set-related topic you’d like to see covered, please let me know and I’ll make [...]
This blog post covers four major ones: Single server Master-slave Replica pairs Sharding Feel free to jump to the ones that interest you (for instance, sharding). Just start up a database, Ace Starting up a vanilla MongoDB instance is super easy, it just needs a port it can listen on and a directory where it [...]
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