Database Clinic: MongoDB

Learn how to leverage MongoDB—a powerful document database—to handle common tasks. Learn how to create a database in MongoDB, join data sets, perform calculations, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome
• The Database Clinic series
• What you should know
• How to use the exercise files

1. Data and MongoDB in Five Minutes

• A brief overview of MongoDB
• Strengths and weaknesses of MongoDB

2. Create a Database

• Database creation
• Overview of database creation in MongoDB
• Explore the data structure
• Create a database in MongoDB
• Insights on database creation in MongoDB

3. Join Two Data Sets

• Join data sets
• Overview of data joins in MongoDB
• Import data
• Combine two data collections
• Calculate on joined data collections
• Insights on joining data sets in MongoDB

4. Search a Database

• Search a database
• Overview of search in MongoDB
• Aggregation functions in MongoDB
• Search a database in MongoDB
• Insights on searching data in MongoDB

5. Create, Read, Update, and Delete Operations

• CRUD operations
• Overview of CRUD operations in MongoDB
• Create records in MongoDB
• CRUD operations in MongoDB
• Insights on CRUD operations in MongoDB

6. Averages and Calculations

• Calculations
• Overview of calculations in MongoDB
• Reshape data for calculations
• Perform calculations in MongoDB
• Insights on calculations in MongoDB

Conclusion

• Next steps