Fixing Page Faults in MongoDB
Page faults are a prevalent error that mostly occurs in a large application involving large data. It takes place when MongoDB database reads data from physical memory rather than from virtual memory. Page fault errors...
The Battle of the NoSQL Databases – Comparing MongoDB & Firebase
The most challenging task to do in a business start-up is to choose the perfect technology based on business needs. In the course of backend app development, any mistake while choosing the right database may...
Troubleshooting a MongoDB Sharded Cluster
In MongoDB, large data sets involve high throughput operations and this may overwhelm the capacity of a single server. Large working data sets implicate more stress on the I/O capacity of disk devices and may...
The Battle of the NoSQL Databases – Comparing MongoDB & MSSQL's NoSQL Functions
It is a well-known fact that MSSQL databases have ruled the world of data technologies and have been the primary source of data storage for over four decades. Generally, the MSSQL database is used mainly...
Preparing a MongoDB Server for Production
After developing your application and database model (when it is time to move the environment into production) there are a couple of things that need to be done first. Oftentimes developers fail to take into...
The Battle of the NoSQL Databases – Comparing MongoDB & Cassandra
Introduction to MongoDB MongoDB was introduced back in 2009 by a company named 10gen. 10gen was later renamed to MongoDB Inc., the company which is responsible for the development of the software, and sells the...
Dealing with Slow Queries in MongoDB
When in production, an application should provide a timely response to the user for the purpose of improving user interaction with your application. At times, however, database queries may start to lag hence taking a...
NoSQL Data Streaming with MongoDB & Kafka
Developers describe Kafka as a "Distributed, fault-tolerant, high throughput, pub-sub, messaging system." Kafka is well-known as a partitioned, distributed, and replicated commit log service. It also provides the functionality of a messaging system, but with...
An Overview of MongoDB User Management
Database User Management is a particularly important part of data security, as we must understand who is accessing the database and set the access rights of each user. If a database does not have a...
Tips for Managing MongoDB Remotely
Working remotely due to the Covid-19 pandemic means an increase in the importance of isolated infrastructures; more specifically ones that can only be accessed through an internal network, but in a way that authorized people...
Running MongoDB with Ops Manager
Database administration goes beyond ensuring smooth operations to having historic performance that will offer some baselines for capacity planning, get real-time performance for load spikes, automating a large cluster of nodes and having a backup...
A Guide to Configuring a Load Balancer in a MongoDB Sharded Cluster
For any database, the load balancing of all the requests coming from clients is an important and fundamental mechanism to ensure scalability. A proper load balancing solution spreads all the client requests evenly across all...