Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 1. Understanding the MongoDB
Architecture and Processes
To be able to diagnose a MongoDB server or change the default preferences to provide bet-
ter performance in a database, we need to understand the primitive MongoDB settings and
management tools. MongoDB consists of binary files and services that make the infrastruc-
ture of the server, and each file performs a specific task.
In this chapter, we will go through the MongoDB processes to discover why they exist and
what each process does exactly.
