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Disclaimer: I used to work for MongoDB, but left more than 2 years ago. I'm really happy to see the free tier as an option - I was a big fan, user, and advocate of MMS back when th…

Follow up post which tests a patch and shows significant improvements and backs up the original premise: http://comerford.cc/wordpress/2014/11/17/mongodb-2-8-improvi...

Having had the pleasure to know and work with William, I think he would be chuffed with the existence of the award, though probably a little embarrassed to have it named after him …

2.4 introduced text indexes for full text search as a beta, and 2.6 finishes the job of fully integrating them into the product - they are fully supported with the new release (inc…

Just to note, the MongoDB journal is basically a write ahead log and has been around since 1.8. It's not simple, you are correct, and involved remapping portions of memory privatel…

Authentication is the main thing to be aware of (no data rebuild), but full notes here: http://docs.mongodb.org/master/release-notes/2.6-upgrade/ And, you have to be on 2.4 first (…

Well, for teaching purposes, independent of suitability for a use case there are multiple courses available for free here: http://education.mongodb.com And, more node.js specific (…

It doesn't use mmap for locking though - and in any case one database is already multiple files (2GB max). There are internal data structures used by MongoDB and the database itsel…

Some notes on using the shell, and some unforeseen performance changes from the beta: http://comerford.cc/wordpress/2014/03/28/mongodb-2-6-shell-p...

Just to clarify on positive/negative limits on a cursor: if the limit number is negative, then the database will return that number of results and close the cursor. No further resu…

The 2nd Edition of the MongoDB: The Definitive Guide from O'Reilly is one I can recommend (full disclosure: I was a technical reviewer on that edition). http://shop.oreilly.com/pro…