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MongoDB Cookbook - Second Edition

You're reading from   MongoDB Cookbook - Second Edition Modern Database Management Made Easy

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785289989
Length 370 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Amol Nayak Amol Nayak
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Cyrus Dasadia Cyrus Dasadia
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Preface 1. Installing and Starting the Server 2. Command-line Operations and Indexes FREE CHAPTER 3. Programming Language Drivers 4. Administration 5. Advanced Operations 6. Monitoring and Backups 7. Deploying MongoDB on the Cloud 8. Integration with Hadoop 9. Open Source and Proprietary Tools A. Concepts for Reference Index

Implementing triggers in Mongo using oplog


In a relational database, a trigger is a code that gets invoked when an insert, update, or a delete operation is executed on a table in the database. A trigger can be invoked either before or after the operation. Triggers are not implemented in MongoDB out of the box and in case you need some sort of notification for your application whenever any insert/update/delete operations are executed, you are left to manage that by yourself in the application. One approach is to have some sort of data access layer in the application, which is the only place to query, insert, update, or delete documents from the collections. However, there are few challenges to it. First, you need to explicitly code the logic to accommodate this requirement in the application, which may or may not be feasible. If the database is shared and multiple applications access it, things become even more difficult. Secondly, the access needs to be strictly regulated and no other source...

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