Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. MongoDB has recently released a new query engine coming in version 7.0. I was one of the people working on this engine during my 2 years in MongoDB and I would like to share some technical details about it.

Key Takeaways Even though MongoDB doesn’t enforce it, it is vital to design a schema. Likewise, indexes have to be designed in conjunction with your schema and access patterns. Avoid large objects, and especially large arrays.

MongoDB is a NoSQL database that stores JavaScript objects, PHP associative arrays, and whatever native data types your programming language supports that uses the MongoDB drivers. This live coding video shows my first experience with this awesome datastore. I'll walk you through how to install it o