Why I miss MongoDB

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!