A new MongoDB meeting will be in Madrid on October 13th. In this occasion I will have the opportunity to talk about Tag-based sharding. This will be complemented with a talk by Rafael Aranaz @rafaranaz about GridFS. I believe the afternoon will be very interesting, users with less expertise and […]
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It is the moment to upgrade our MongoDB installation, do we know how to do it? In this post we will explain how to achieve it for all sort of deployments, a stand-alone node, a Replica set or a Sharded Cluster. We will talk about how to upgrade to 3.0 […]
Definition A sharded cluster is a set of Replica Sets (shards) whose mission is to distribute the load uniformly, so that we can scale horizontally our applications in order to work with huge amounts of data. Advantages of a sharded cluster The main features of a sharded cluster are:
We will see how to set up our mongod services in order to deploy a Replica Set and for getting high availability and automatic data replication. The first thing we need is to have MongoDB installed in our computer. If you do not remember how to do it, you can […]