It is always a challenge to learn how to use new software products. Of course, all of them have documentation and how-to guides to explain the basics. However, many people would rather watch videos or find a teacher as this is the best way for our brains to consume...
One of the things many developers love about MongoDB and other NoSQL databases is the ability to store flexible objects in their native format. When you walk around the office singing its praises, experienced developers chime in and tell you that this is a quick path...
We live in the age of big data, we produce and collect more data then ever. Surely, just hoarding it doesn't make much sense, but a lot of valuable information could be extracted from it and used, for example, in the decision making process. Every organisation I...
I found it misleading that there are so many graphic interface tools to query and update the data in MongoDB. The hardest bit is to find an honest opinion if it's any good to use. I had to try as many of them as I could find, and below is what I think about them. Note...
Kia ora koutou, This month we have a spotlight on Open Source, our team are passionate about open - Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source. I first worked on an Open Source Linux kernel back in 1989 (showing my age) so have enjoyed watching this space mature and...
We use MongoDB as part of our daily life at OptimalBI, and we love it. We did notice that there's not really a Wellington user community, so we figured we'd better fix that! We're pretty happy to announce that there's now a MongoDB Meetup in Wellington! ...
MongoDB Atlas is a topic of conversation for many of the people who use MongoDB on a day-to-day basis, so I thought that I would quickly throw together a blog outlining what Atlas is and when/why you should use it. What MongoDB Atlas is MongoDB's managed MongoDB as a...
MongoDB 3.6 has some awesome features, change streams being my personal favourite (see all the changes here), but what if we have an old MongoDB cluster running on 3.4 and want to use these cool features? Here is how! Note: This guide assumes you installed MongoDB...
If you've chatted with me in depth about BI/DW it's highly likely I've mentioned Presto - an open source project I've been following for the last few years. Presto is a "SQL on anything" distributed SQL query engine which was developed by Facebook and publicly...
MongoDB is a very popular database, in fact, we love blogging about it. But what is MongoDB? And what are the best things to do with it, and what shouldn't I do with it? I get asked this a lot so here are the answers to these questions. Don't worry if you're not a...