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Shakuntala Gupta Edward and Navin SabharwalPractical MongoDB10.1007/978-1-4842-0647-8_7

7. MongoDB Architecture

Shakuntala Gupta Edward and Navin Sabharwal2
(1)
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
(2)
New Delhi, Delhi, India
 
“MongoDB architecture covers the deep-dive architectural concepts of MongoDB.”
In this chapter, you will learn about the MongoDB architecture, especially core processes and tools, standalone deployment, sharding concepts, replication concepts, and production deployment.

7.1 Core Processes

The core components in the MongoDB package are
  • mongod, which is the core database process
  • mongos, which is the controller and query router for sharded clusters
  • mongo, which is the interactive MongoDB ...

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