Introduction to MongoDB

MongoDB Inc.

About this Course

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This course will get you up and running with MongoDB quickly, and teach you how to leverage its power for data analytics.
We'll start by mastering the fundamentals of MongoDB, including MongoDB’s Document data model, importing data into a cluster, working with our CRUD API and Aggregation Framework. These topics will be taught through a demo application which will give you a great first encounter of how simple and practical it can be to build applications with MongoDB.

In addition to these essential topics, you will also learn and work with useful MongoDB tools and services. You will work with Atlas, MongoDB's database as a service, MongoDB Compass, a schema visualization tool, as well as many other useful command-line utilities.

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Intermediate Level

Approx. 17 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: French, Portuguese (Brazilian), Korean, Russian, English, Spanish

Instructors

Instructor rating

4.52/5 (53 Ratings)

Learner Career Outcomes

19%

got a tangible career benefit from this course

10%

got a pay increase or promotion

Shareable Certificate

Earn a Certificate upon completion

100% online

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Flexible deadlines

Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.

Intermediate Level

Approx. 17 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: French, Portuguese (Brazilian), Korean, Russian, English, Spanish

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MongoDB Inc.

MongoDB is the leading modern, general purpose database platform, designed to unleash the power of software and data for developers and the applications they build. Headquartered in New York, MongoDB has more than 4,300 customers in over 85 countries, including more than half of the global Fortune 100. The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded over 30 million times and there have been more than 730,000 MongoDB University registrations.

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week

Week 1

6 hours to complete

Week 1

6 hours to complete

14 videos (Total 78 min), 2 readings, 10 quizzes

14 videos

Welcome!2m

MongoDB Document Model5m

Creating an Atlas Free-Tier Cluster4m

Installing MongoDB on Windows12m

Installing MongoDB on OSX12m

Getting Data Into MongoDB4m

Using Compass to View Data in an Atlas Cluster3m

Working with Data in MongoDB4m

How to Connect to Your Atlas Cluster from Python3m

Intro to the Aggregation Framework3m

Your First Aggregation (Using $group)7m

Incremental Improvements with $sort and $sortByCount1m

Wowza! You can do that? ($facet)8m

Filtering on Scalar Fields ($match, find(), and Compass)4m

2 readings

Setting Up Your Course Environment10m

mongoimport10m

10 practice exercises

Creating an Atlas Free-Tier Cluster30m

Getting Data Into MongoDB30m

Using Compass to View Data in an Atlas Cluster30m

Working with Data in MongoDB30m

How to Connect to Your Atlas Cluster from Python30m

Connecting to Atlas15m

Intro to the Aggregation Framework30m

Your First Aggregation (Using $group)30m

Incremental Improvements with $sort and $sortByCount30m

Analyzing Data with Aggregation30m

Week

Week 2

7 hours to complete

Week 2

7 hours to complete

16 videos (Total 99 min), 1 reading, 10 quizzes

16 videos

Projecting Queries (Part 1)9m

Projecting Queries (Part 2)4m

Projecting Queries (Part 3)5m

Updating Documents (Part 1)7m

Updating Documents (Part 2)7m

Bulk Updates4m

Data Types in MongoDB5m

Filtering on Array Fields7m

How MFlix Works with MongoDB8m

Sort, Skip, and Limit5m

Query movies using operators5m

The $elemMatch Operator4m

Querying on tomatoes subdocument6m

Inserting Comments in MFlix4m

Updating comments6m

Deleting Data in MFlix5m

1 reading

Setting Up MFlix10m

10 practice exercises

Data Types in MongoDB30m

Cleansing Data with Updates20m

Sort, Skip, and Limit30m

Querying movies using operators30m

The $elemMatch Operator30m

Querying for Documents on an Array Field30m

Querying on subdocuments30m

Inserting Comments in MFlix30m

Updating Documents30m

Deleting Data in MFlix30m

Week

Week 3

4 hours to complete

Week 3

4 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 26 min)

4 videos

Indexes in Movies (Part 1)5m

Indexes in Movies (Part 2)6m

Geospatial Queries6m

Graphing with MongoDB7m

6 practice exercises

MongoDB Indexes30m

Improve Query Performance20m

Geospatial Queries30m

Finding Things Nearby20m

Graphing with MongoDB30m

Making Plots with Matplotlib & MongoDB1h

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Introduction to MongoDB