Our Adventure with MongoDB

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Our Adventure WithMongoDB, Rails & Friends

Chicago RubyOctober 2010

Ethan Gundersonhttp://ethangunderson.com

Twitter & Github: ethangunderson

Our Agenda1) gathers.us2) Choosing an ODM3) Data modeling4) Other fun Mongo events5) Q & A

Manage events

Manage your groups(coming soon)

Aggregate your social content(coming soon)

High ValueGroupsEventsRSVPs

Low ValueSocial Events

Data needs

Our Agenda1) gathers.us2) Choosing an ODM3) Data modeling4) Other fun Mongo events5) Q & A

MongoMapperMogoDoc

MongoidMongomatic

Candy

Lotʼs of options for Rails integration

The strait Mongo Ruby driver!We chose ...

ORMs are worthless if you donʼt understand what theyʼre doing.

Simple to use

Learn your tools

We avoided one until it became too painful not to use one.

In the end, we choseMongoid

Rails 3 support

Nice query syntax

Safe mode

Master / Slave

Our Agenda1) gathers.us2) Choosing an ODM3) Data modeling4) Other fun Mongo events5) Q & A

Our data model

Introducing groups

Option 1

Option 2

YEAH!!!

This idea actually sucks

Mongoʼs 4MB document limit

Among other things, it keeps people like us, from doing things like that.

In reality, documents shouldnʼt be bigger than ~250kb

1) updating on the server2) transferring across the network3) serializing to and from BSON

Inefficient when...

Option 3single collection inheritance

Mongoid Support

Top level objects are stilltop level objects

Moral of the story is,data modeling is still hard

Our Agenda1) gathers.us2) Choosing an ODM3) Data modeling4) Other fun Mongo events5) Q & A

October 18th, 6:00pmObtiva Studiohttp://chicagodb.com

The CTO of 10gen, Eliot Horowitz, will give us an in depth look at the components that make up MongoDB

ChicagoDB October

October 20th, 9am - 6pmIIThttp://10gen.com/conferences/mongochicago2010

21 presentations by Mongo users and 10gen employees covering a wide array of topics from Mongo basics to Sharding architecture.

Mongo Chicago

Our Agenda1) gathers.us2) Choosing an ODM3) Data modeling4) Other fun Mongo events5) Q & A

http://spkr8.com/t/4704

Q & A

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