MongoDB is a rapidly growing noSQL database solution used by many major companies and favored by startups for its simple design and setup. It’s greatest advantage is the ability to use the unstructured data type, BSON, which allows developers to avoid writing, maintaining and upgrading schema. Unlike some SQL options, it has scaling and redundancy built-in and allows for quick ad-hoc querying of any data. This talk will go over the basics of data insertion/retrieval, compare querying between SQL and MongoDB, work through some advanced queries like map/reduce and aggregation, and look at the more sophisticated features from a 10,000 ft view.
Bio: Matt Warren is a graduate of Northeastern University and has been working in Systems Administration and Engineering for 8 years. His career started at Smarter Travel Media and most recently he is working for Boston-based ground travel startup, Wanderu. He specializes in scaling solutions to handle the traffic loads of high performance, e-commerce websites. In September of 2015, he became organizer of the Boston MongoDB Meetup.
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