MongoDB configuration and best practices

In this section, we will present some of the best practice around operations, schema design, durability, replication, sharding, and security. Further information on when to implement these best practices will be presented in later chapters.

Operational best practices

As a database, MongoDB is built with developers in mind, and it was developed during the web era, so it does not require as much operational overhead as traditional RDBMS. That being said, there are some best practices that need to be followed to be proactive and achieve high availability goals.

In order of importance, the best practices are as follows:

• Turn journaling on by default: Journaling uses a write-ahead log to...