The ease of installing and running MongoDB can lead to neglect of basic database management. Then one day you’re getting frantic calls from a client or coworker about an application that’s crashed. Your current MongoDB setup couldn’t handle the increased usage and simply gave
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Cloud solutions have gained a lot of traction in recent years due to their scalability potential. It’s hard to know which one to choose for your company with so many new options coming into the marketplace each day. Let’s clear
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Have you noticed that your app is slow? Are snapshots of your MongoDB instances trending in the wrong direction? Troubleshooting MongoDB isn’t always easy because there are often a combination of issues causing slow database response. One of the most
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These days, it seems like everyone and their dog has a mobile app. With good reason, too: “people are spending an average of 3:23 per day in apps, and only 50 minutes on the mobile web.” Users prefer to interact
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Using the right collection database configuration can help organizations increase the availability, scalability, and performance of their Sitecore deployments. MongoDB is one of the most popular data platforms used for Sitecore xDB, for good reason. That’s what led SingleStone, a
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Everyone is talking about this huge change in data privacy regulation. The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect on May 25, 2018. Any company that is not compliant faces fines and penalties. GDPR affects any organization,
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We’re excited to announce that we now offer ObjectRocket for MongoDB on Microsoft Azure. With this new global offering via Microsoft Azure Cloud, businesses of all sizes can get their data as close to their application as possible, reducing latency
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The MongoDB command line utility, rs.remove(), is used to remove a member from a replica set. Prior to MongoDB version 3.0, the rs.remove() command would cause elections to occur. However, starting with version 3.0 this is no longer the case. From
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Out of the box, Kibana includes the ability to display geo-data on maps provided by Elastic’s tile service. This provides a great introduction to what Kibana can do, but the maximum zoom level is limited if you don’t have an
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Databases aren’t easy to manage. They occupy a lot of hardware, require valuable man-hours to maintain, and there aren’t that many people qualified to work on them if something goes very wrong. Plus, they are a mystery to most business
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