MongoDB in Action, Second Edition

Part 2. Application development in MongoDB

Part 2 of this book is a deep exploration of MongoDB’s document data model, query language, and CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) operations.

We’ll make these topics concrete by progressively designing an e-commerce data model and the CRUD operations necessary for managing such data. Each chapter will present its subject matter in a top-down fashion, first by presenting examples within the sample e-commerce application’s domain, and then by systematically filling in the details. On your first reading, you may want to read the e-commerce examples only and save the detailed material for later, or vice versa.

In chapter 4, you’ll learn some schema design principles and then construct a basic e-commerce ...