Some notes as a beginner.

1. The concept of "Nosql"

Most NoSQL stores lack true ACID transactions.  And this could leads to a problem called "stale reads".

And some NoSQL systems may exhibit lost writes and other forms of data loss. Fortunately, some NoSQL systems provide concepts such as write-ahead logging to avoid data loss.

2. A basic classification of Nosqls by data model

Column, Document, Key-value, Graph, Multi-model..

Mongodb is based on Document, it uses JSON-like documents with schemas.

3. Main features of Mongodb

a. ad-hoc queries: it surports field, range expression searches.

b. indexing: the fields in Mongodb can be indexed with primary and secondary indices.

c. Replication: Mongodb provides high avalibility with replica sets.  (this has something to do with the consistency of the data)

d. Load balancing: Mongodb scales horizontally using sharding. It can run over multiple servers.

e. File storage: It has a grid file system function. GridFS divides a file into parts, or chunks, and stores each parts as a seperate document.

f. Aggregation: It works with MapReduce model. The aggregation framework enables users to obtain results group by some rules.

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