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MongoDB Change streams allow applications to access real-time data changes without the complexity and risk of tailing the oplog. Applications can use change streams to subscribe to all data changes on a single collection, a database, or an entire deployment, and immediately react to them. This blog provides an overview of this feature.

This is an excerpt from our whitepaper “MongoDB Management and Automation with ClusterControl”. This white paper reviews the challenges involved in managing MongoDB at scale and introduces mitigating features of ClusterControl from Severalnines. As a best of breed database management solution, ClusterControl brings consistency and reliability to your database environment, and simplifies your database operations at scale.

This blog provides a quick reference for DBAs and SysAdmins who are either new to MySQL or MongoDB with regards to the terms and commands available within the database and how they compare with one another.

This blog describes the major factors to consider when performing MongoDB data modeling including scalability, atomicity, performance / data usage, sharding, indexing, storage optimization, document structure, growth, and the data lifecycle.

MongoDB 4.0 added support for multi-document ACID transactions, which brings it closer to the relational world. But how can you manage it, along with other relational open source databases like MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL? In this blog post, we look at the challenges of operating a MongoDB database, and see how important tasks like monitoring, alerting, backups and failover can be handled with ClusterControl.

Database security is an important part of management. This blog shows you how to use different types of encryption to ensure your MongoDB data is secure.

ClusterControl’s new agent-based monitoring of MongoDB with Prometheus offers dashboards with graphs of high resolution metrics data. In this blog, we will have a look at the different graphs that are available to users.

This blog provides an overview of the next iteration of the agent-based monitoring features for MySQL, Galera Cluster, PostgreSQL and ProxySQL in ClusterControl with its 1.7.1 release, support for PostgreSQL 11 and MongoDB 4.0, as well as a whole range of new monitoring and backup management features for PostgreSQL … and more.

This blog provides an overview of the key new features which were added to MongoDB in 2018 and how you can use them in your database setup.

Read about 2018 at Severalnines: from our top achievements of the year via our year-end video all the way through to our most read and watched content for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL & MongoDB users.