Application Development

MongoDB provides language-specific client libraries called drivers that let you develop applications to interact with your databases.

This page lists the documents, tutorials, and reference pages that describe application development. For API-level documentation, see MongoDB Drivers and Client Libraries.

For an overview application-development specific concepts, see the aggregation and indexes documents. For an introduction to basic MongoDB use, see the administration tutorials.

See also

Core MongoDB Operations (CRUD) section and the FAQ: MongoDB for Application Developers document. Developers should also be familiar with the mongo shell and the MongoDB query and update operators.

Development Considerations

The following documents outline basic application development documents:

• MongoDB Drivers and Client Libraries
• Optimization Strategies for MongoDB
• Capped Collections
• Server-side JavaScript
• Store a JavaScript Function on the Server

See also

• Read Preference
• Write Concern
• Indexing Strategies
• Aggregation Framework
• Map-Reduce
• Perform Incremental Map-Reduce
• Troubleshoot the Map Function
• Troubleshoot the Reduce Function
• Connection String URI Format

Application Design Patterns for MongoDB

The following documents provide patterns for developing application features:

• Perform Two Phase Commits
• Create Tailable Cursor
• Isolate Sequence of Operations
• Create an Auto-Incrementing Sequence Field
• Limit Number of Elements in an Array after an Update
• Expire Data from Collections by Setting TTL

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