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Introduction to MongoDB

November 10, 2011

phpmaster recently posted an article titled Introduction to MongoDB. I’m not entirely sold on non-relational databases yet, in that while I can see how wonderfully beneficial they can be in many situations, they’re not as ubiquitously useful as all the hype would seem to suggest. But in any case, a good article like this one, which introduces MongoDB, shows how to install support for it in PHP (although the instructions are for Unix-like systems), and provides code for actually interacting with a MongoDB database is worth the time to read.

Looking Ahead: MongoDB

April 12, 2011

Someone, I forget who (sorry), referred me to MongoDB, some time back. I haven’t written about this yet, as I was having trouble “getting” MongoDB. This isn’t going to be an exhaustive introduction to MongoDB, but I want to explain what I finally “got”. And although that I’m still not sure MongoDB is right for me, today at least, it definitely seems to be something worth keeping an eye on going into the future. Continue Reading…