Mongodb kyle banker Mongodb in action --------------- Why mongodb data is not flat as is there in rdbms. query in adhoc manner document like structure - denormalized form of data - Indexes There is no join in the mongodb Data writes are atomic. they do banking - embed documents into another documents. Schema - design criteria - How can we manipulate this data a) Dynamic Queries b) Secondary Indexes c) Map Reduce d) Atomic Updates Access Patterns: a) Read/Write ratio b) Type of updates c) Types of queries d) Data life-cycle - db.users db.users.save({name:"Kyle"}) - db.users.find().explain Queue ----------- Mongokit Mongoengine. Documents are - sort of dynamic structures we don;t have to define them in advance. More sort of data. Collections - Python mongodb - import pymongo >>c = pymongo.Connection('localhost',27017) >>c c['python']['users']