Robert Sheldon is writing a series of articles on MongoDB, starting with the basics and working deeper and deeper. These are the items that have been published so far:

Robert Sheldon in MongoDB

Moving from SQL to MongoDB’s MQL

People new to MongoDB often come to the platform with a background in relational database management systems (RDBMSs) such as…

30 May 2025 27 min read

Robert Sheldon in MongoDB

Working with the MongoDB Database Tools

The MongoDB Database Tools are a set of command-line utilities for working with MongoDB instances and their data. You can…

29 April 2025 16 min read

Robert Sheldon in MongoDB

Working with MongoDB Shell

Throughout this series, I’ve provided a number of examples of how to run commands in MongoDB Shell (mongosh). However, the…

10 April 2025 18 min read 1

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Importing and exporting data in MongoDB Compass

When working with MongoDB, you’ll likely need to import or export document data from time-to-time. You can use MongoDB Compass…

05 March 2025 16 min read 1

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Creating Time Series Collections in MongoDB

Throughout this series, I’ve introduced you to different features in MongoDB and provided examples to help demonstrate how the database…

27 January 2025 15 min read 2

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Working with MongoDB Indexes

Throughout this series, I’ve covered a number of topics about working with MongoDB collections and their data. One topic I…

26 November 2024 20 min read 1

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Connecting to MongoDB through Python

This article is a bit of a departure from the previous articles in this series. Rather than focusing exclusively on…

05 November 2024 19 min read

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Creating Views in MongoDB: Aggregation Pipelines, $lookup Joins, On-Demand Materialized Views, and MongoDB Compass

Creating views in MongoDB using aggregation pipelines – standard views, on-demand materialised views with $merge, joining collections with $lookup, filtering…

16 October 2024 16 min read 11

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Working with Schema Validation in MongoDB

In the previous article in this series, I introduced you to schema validation in MongoDB. I described how you can…

13 September 2024 18 min read 1

Robert Sheldon in NoSQL

Introducing Schema Validation in MongoDB

Similar to other NoSQL database systems, MongoDB is known for its flexible and variable schema models, unlike relational database systems…

21 August 2024 21 min read

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Working with Documents in the MongoDB Compass GUI

Throughout this series, I’ve discussed various ways to work with the documents in a MongoDB collection. If you’ve been following…

10 July 2024 23 min read 1

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Deleting Documents from a MongoDB Collection

So far in this series, we’ve looked at different ways that you can add, retrieve, and update documents in a…

24 June 2024 15 min read

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Updating Documents in MongoDB

In the previous articles this series, I demonstrated various ways to retrieve document data from a MongoDB database, using both…

29 April 2024 21 min read

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Building MongoDB Aggregations in MongoDB Compass

In the previous article in this series, I demonstrated how to build and run an aggregate statement in MongoDB Shell….

02 April 2024 22 min read

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Building MongoDB Aggregations

In the previous article in this series, I discussed how to use a find statement to retrieve data from a…

01 March 2024 20 min read

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Querying MongoDB Documents

MongoDB provides an efficient environment for storing document data at scale. However, most of your interactions with MongoDB will not…

22 January 2024 25 min read

Robert Sheldon in NoSQL

Introducing the MongoDB Document

MongoDB is a document database. As such, the data is stored as individual documents. A document is a data structure…

26 December 2023 18 min read

Robert Sheldon in NoSQL

Getting Started with MongoDB

MongoDB is a scalable database management system that stores data as documents in a collection, rather than as rows in…

13 November 2023 18 min read