Exploring MongoDB

As the volume of information to process and store has drastically increased in the past few years, many IT shops have been looking for alternatives to traditional relational databases to store and query data. The not only SQL (NoSQL) database movement has gained popularity as a way to trade consistency and structure of the data for more efficient or flexible data storage. MongoDB (www.mongodb.org) is a database product designed to store documents in formats, such as JSON, and with no strict database schema. Along with the Java driver built to access and query a MongoDB database, we are going to discover how the Casbah Scala toolkit (https://github.com/mongodb/casbah) can be used to conveniently access and query such a database through a DSL.

Entering Casbah

The only requirement to start experimenting with Casbah is to add its .jar library dependency to an SBT or Play project. In a new directory on your disk, type > play new ch10samples from a terminal window and add the...