Articles filed in category 'MongoDB'

  • To MongoDB, or Not to MongoDB

    By: Ben Coe

    Last updated: Monday, October 6, 2025

    Published in: CODE Magazine: 2013 - September/October

    Ben Coe argues that the NoSQL versus SQL debate is not absolute and shares his pragmatic experience using MongoDB for Attachments.me. He traces underlying trade-offs—schemaless, denormalized modeling, and developer-oriented design versus traditional SQL robustness and mature tooling—and demonstrates how MongoDB can fit real-world applications, including modeling a music store, executing complex queries, and scaling concerns. Coe cautions against overreliance on sharding, emphasizes indexing and workload characterization, and concludes that MongoDB is powerful for certain big-data and rapid-prototyping needs, but not a universal solution.

  • Hit the Ground Running with MongoDB and Python

    Last updated: Friday, February 22, 2019

    Published in: Book Excerpts, Newsletters

    Stephen B. Morris describes how to get started with MongoDB and Python. As usual with Python, you can get productive quickly, without worrying about complex IDEs. MongoDB has a simple data model and easy-to-understand semantics, giving you a handy on-ramp to this interesting technology.