MongoDB Indexes
When you're developing an application, it's common to only work with a small quantity of data. The amount of data your production system encounters may not be available or may simply be unmanageable on development systems. Developing with a limited amount of data may mask eventual performance problems. Your queries respond quickly with a few hundred megabytes of sample data, but query latency may skyrocket when users query over a few hundred gigabytes. This article looks at using indexes in your MongoDB collections to address performance problems, as well as how to optimize your indexes.
What are Indexes?
You can think of an index in MongoDB, or its relational counterparts, like a book index. If you're looking for a specific topic in a textbook without an index, your only option is to flip through every page to see if that page matches your interests. Depending on the size of the book, this can get tedious and time-consuming. MongoDB has to do the same thing when you query a collection: each document in the collection has to be examined and matches are added to the result set.
The search changes drastically with an index. The index is a tree-like structure containing the values you specify. If we keep going with our textbook example, a topic index might look like:
When you're developing an application, it's common to only work with a small quantity of data. The amount of data your production system encounters may not be available or may simply be unmanageable on development systems. Developing with a limited amount of data may mask eventual performance problems. Your queries respond quickly with a few hundred megabytes of sample data, but query latency may skyrocket when users query over a few hundred gigabytes. This article looks at using indexes in your MongoDB collections to address performance problems, as well as how to optimize your indexes.
What are Indexes?
You can think of an index in MongoDB, or its relational counterparts, like a book index. If you're looking for a specific topic in a textbook without an index, your only option is to flip through every page to see if that page matches your interests. Depending on the size of the book, this can get tedious and time-consuming. MongoDB has to do the same thing when you query a collection: each document in the collection has to be examined and matches are added to the result set.
The search changes drastically with an index. The index is a tree-like structure containing the values you specify. If we keep going with our textbook example, a topic index might look like:
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