The latest tutorials and articles on MongoDB, NoSQL and Studio 3T, our MongoDB GUI and IDE.
How to Prepare Data Before Creating a MongoDB Collection
When you are importing data into a MongoDB database, a lot of work and frayed tempers can be saved by preparing data properly before you attempt to create a MongoDB collection. In this article, I’ll [...]
How to Create a MongoDB View
Creating a MongoDB View in Studio 3T Creating a MongoDB View from a SQL Query Simple SQL Queries (Not So) Simple SQL Queries In SQL databases, a view lets you pre-specify a query so that [...]
MongoDB, A Database with Porpoise
When you have a whale of a performance problem Before you get into dealing with the minutia of database performance, you have to stand back and ask the obvious questions like ‘do I actually need [...]
How to Investigate MongoDB Query Performance
When dealing performance issues in any type of database, it usually pays to take a simple approach and deal with the queries that are causing the most problems first. MongoDB has some excellent features that [...]
A Couple of MongoDB Limericks
Today is World Poetry Day, so we've taken a leaf out of Phil's book and wrote a couple of MongoDB limericks - executable and all - in JSON query syntax. Studio 3T, It Must Be db.companies.find({ [...]
How to Connect to Compose with Studio 3T
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to connect to your Compose-hosted MongoDB database with Studio 3T, the GUI for MongoDB. Prerequisites: Sign up for a Compose account through their free 30-day trial. Download our MongoDB [...]
MongoDB Schema Discovery and Exploration
One of the great things that we love about MongoDB is of course that it's schema-less, which makes adapting your application to changing requirements a breeze. That said, your data will often have a fixed implicit [...]
MongoDB Dropped ACID – And It’s Kind of a Big Deal
Nope, we’re not talking chemicals here 🙂 MongoDB recently made a giant announcement that ACID will be supported in multi-document transactions with the release of 4.0. But what’s ACID anyway? What is ACID? In the [...]
The Main Types of NoSQL Databases
In this post, we'll walk you through a (very) brief history of NoSQL, then explain the main types of NoSQL databases with examples and use cases for each. The tl;dr History of NoSQL Types of NoSQL [...]
What’s New in Studio 3T 2018.2 | Query Code Added to Aggregation Editor, Export Comparison Results, and More
In this release, Studio 3T adds Query Code to Aggregation Editor and the ability to export comparison results from Data Compare & Sync, among many other improvements. Query Code Added to Aggregation Editor Query [...]