why i miss mongodb
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WHY I MISS Barcelona MUG 05/03/2015 @pablitoev56
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ABOUT ME
• Pablo Enfedaque Vidal
• Senior Software Engineer at Skyscanner
• More than 4 years working with MongoDB
• I love it!
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MY LOVE STORY
I started with MongoDB 0.8
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MY LOVE STORY
It was not mature enough – I left it
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MY LOVE STORY
I re-started with MongoDB 1.6
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MY LOVE STORY
And never left it
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MY LOVE STORY
Until 6 months ago
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MY LOVE STORY
And I do really miss it a lot
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MY LOVE STORY
And I will explain you why…
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DYNAMIC SCHEMA AKA. FLEXIBLE SCHEMA
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DYNAMIC SCHEMA
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DYNAMIC SCHEMA
Databases, collections and attributes creation on demand
Really useful when running tests and
while developing
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DYNAMIC SCHEMA
Attributes don’t have a pre-defined or fixed data type
Painless schema migrations
Faster development
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DYNAMIC SCHEMA – BONUS!
MongoDB + Dynamic Language = PERFECT LOVE STORY
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DYNAMIC SCHEMA
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ADVANCED DATA STRUCTURES AKA. EMBEDDED DATA MODELS
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ADVANCED DATA STRUCTURES
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ADVANCED DATA STRUCTURES
Nested documents, arrays, arrays of nested documents… up to 16Mb
Proper objects mapping to documents No clash of object oriented world vs.
relational world
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ADVANCED DATA STRUCTURES
No JOIN, no INNER JOIN, no LEFT OUTTER JOIN…
No JOIN? Yeah! You don't need them
Denormalization For The Win!
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ADVANCED DATA STRUCTURES
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THE API AKA. QUERY SYNTAX
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THE API
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THE API
Neat and simple yet effective and powerful API
Human-friendly API
Yeah, scary at first glance, but with a soft learning curve
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THE API
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THE API
Logic out of the DB, in the code!
Power to the developers! Easier to test and debug
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OFFICIAL DRIVERS
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OFFICIAL DRIVERS
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OFFICIAL DRIVERS
Official drivers for 11 languages
Fully featured, high performance Painless installation
Amazing support and maintenance
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OFFICIAL DRIVERS
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OFFICIAL DRIVERS
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OFFICIAL DRIVERS
Consistent API syntax, but also aligned with the language style
Easy transition between languages
Faster learning
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OFFICIAL DRIVERS
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PERFORMANCE
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PERFORMANCE
Came for the performance, stayed for everything else
Because never had to worry for the
performance again!
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QUESTIONS? I HOPE YOU ENJOYED!