Useful Mongo Resources for NoSQL Newbs
I’ve been using MySQL for years, and am very comfortable with it. A little too comfortable.
Keen on investigating this ‘NoSQL‘ business, I decided to pick one of them to get started with. Out of Cassandra, Hypertable, Mongo and Redis, I found Mongo’s docs the most friendly.
Coming from a heavy SQL background, I can so far say only this: NoSQL is strange. I find the possibilities that Mongo opens to me exciting, confusing and a little unsettling all at once. I’m itching to get started on a project using Mongo, but have so far limited myself to ‘play’ data, in an effort to grok the concepts involved.
Although I’m not yet comfortable with Mongo yet, I’ve come a long way from the total confusion I experienced at first, thanks mainly to the following resources and applications:
- Fiesta’s Mongo Introduction
- Kyle Banker’s Mongo Aggregation Tutorials
- Rock Mongo (basically phpMyAdmin for Mongo)
- MongoHub (like MySQLWorkbench for Mongo)
- NoSQL Databases and Polyglot Persistence: A Curated Guide. A site dedicated to all things NoSQL.
And obviously, the Mongo Docs themselves.
If anyone reading this knows of more helpful and noob-friendly Mongo resources, please let me know!
