mongodb

rails3, gridfs and mongomapper: how to serve files? send_data?

i am currently developing a rails3 app with mongomapper and file storage in gridfs. after some trying around, i found grip and currently also use it in the app for storing the data. so far, so good - now i am trying to get my head around serving the files to the user -- what would be the best/fastest way to achieve that? from: http://ra...

MongoDB in desktop application

Is it a good idea to use MongoDB in .NET desktop application? ...

Filtering documents against a dictionary key in MongoDB

I have a collection of articles in MongoDB that has the following structure: { 'category': 'Legislature', 'updated': datetime.datetime(2010, 3, 19, 15, 32, 22, 107000), 'byline': None, 'tags': { 'party': ['Peter Hoekstra', 'Virg Bernero', 'Alma Smith', 'Mike Bouchard', 'Tom George', 'Rick Snyder'], 'g...

Has anyone used an object database with a large amount of data?

Object databases like MongoDB and db4o are getting lots of publicity lately. Everyone that plays with them seems to love it. I'm guessing that they are dealing with about 640K of data in their sample apps. Has anyone tried to use an object database with a large amount of data (say, 50GB or more)? Are you able to still execute complex...

How to use 3rd party libraries in glassfish?

I need to connect to a MongoDB instance from my EJB3 application, running on glassfish 3.0.1. The Mongo project provides a set of drivers, and I'm able to use them in a standalone Java application. How would I use them in a JEE application? Or maybe better phrasing: how would I make a 3rd party library available to my application when i...

Anyone knows a good tutorial for using Mongodb or MongoMapper with Ramaze?

Anyone knows a good tutorial for using Mongodb or MongoMapper with Ramaze? Thanks ...

mongokit and django

I'm looking for good tutorial or really simple code to integrate mongokit and django ...

Rails + MongoMapper + EmbeddedDocument form help

I am working on a pretty simple web application (famous last words) and am working with Rails 2.3.5 + MongoMapper 0.7.2 and using embedded documents. I have two questions to ask: First, are there any example applications out there using Rails + MongoMapper + EmbeddedDocument? Preferably on GitHub or some other similar site so that I can...

Is Using Python to MapReduce for Cassandra Dumb?

Since Cassandra doesn't have MapReduce built in yet (I think it's coming in 0.7), is it dumb to try and MapReduce with my Python client or should I just use CouchDB or Mongo or something? The application is stats collection, so I need to be able to sum values with grouping to increment counters. I'm not, but pretend I'm making Google an...

How to use MongoRegex (MongoDB C# Driver)

Has anyone have any idea how to use MongoRegex for the document search? I attempted this, but returns nothing back: var spec = new Document(); spec.Add("Name", new MongoRegex("/" + searchKey + "*/", "i")); collection.Find(spec) Wondering why it doesn't work, I tried to execute following command from the console: db.things.find({"Nam...

How I know my document's size inside MongoDB with the ruby driver

Hi, The limitation of one document in MongoDB is 4Mo. I have some documents really heavy with a lot of data. How I know my document's size inside MongoDB with the ruby driver ? ...

Is MongoDB a valid alternative to relational db + lucene?

On a new project I need a hard use of lucene for a searcher implementation. This searcher will be a very important (and big) piece of the project. Is valid or convenient replacing Relational Database + Lucene with MongoDb? edit: Ok, I will clarify: I'm not asking about risk, I can pay that price in this project. My point is: Is MongoDB ...

python mongokit Connection() AssertionError

just installed mongokit and can't figure out why I get AssertionError python console: >>> from mongokit import Connection >>> c = Connection() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/mongokit-0.5.3-py2.6.egg/mongokit/connection.py", line 35, in __init__ ...

What is the best way to format a date in JSON for Mongo DB storage

I have a date with a time. I'm using ruby, but the language shouldn't matter. d = "2010-04-01 13:00:00" What is the best way to format this date for Mongo DB? By 'best' I mean, is there a certain format I could use where Mongo would recognize it as a date and might give me more-advanced filtering optons? ie: If formatted correctly, c...

Understanding MongoDB (and NoSQL in general) and how to make the best use of it

Hello, I am beginning to think that my next project I am wanting to do would work better with a NoSQL solution. The project would either involve a ton of 2-column tables or a ton of dynamic queries with dynamically generated columns in a traditional SQL database. So I feel a NoSQL database would be much cleaner. I'm looking at MongoDB ...

Are there any e-commerce websites that use NoSQL databases

I have read a lot lately about 'NoSQL' databases such as CouchDB, MongoDB etc. Most of the websites I have seen using this are mainly text based websites such as The New York Times and Source forge. I was wondering if you could apply this to websites where payment is a huge issue. I am thinking of the following issues: How well can yo...

How to run/port MongoDB on iPad?

I wonder if it is possible to run MongoDB on iPad as it is or do I have to port it to iPhone OS? ...

Mongo connect problem using asp.net

I wrote these lines in My Application start event: var mongo = new Mongo(); mongo.Connect(); var blog = mongo.GetDatabase("Blog"); mongo.Disconnect(); but on this line: mongo.Connect(); it gave me this error: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:27017 I am a beg...

How to use map/reduce to handle more than 10000 unique keys for grouping in MongoDB?

I am using MongoDB v1.4 and the mongodb-csharp driver and I try to group on a data store that has more than 10000 keys, so I get this error: assertion: group() can't handle more than 10000 unique keys using c# code like this: Document query = new Document().Append("group", new Document() .Append("key", new Document().Append("myfieldn...

MongoDB's performance on aggregation queries

Hello, After hearing so many good things about MongoDB's performance we decided to give Mongodb a try to solve a problem we have. I started by moving all the records we have in several mysql databases to a single collection in mongodb. This resulted in a collection with 29 Million documents (each one of them have at least 20 fields) whi...