Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Sharding in MongoDB
MongoDB has a great solution to provide clustering.
Sharding
is one of the remarkable
MongoDB features that enable developers to easily create a cluster in MongoDB using dif-
ferent
mongod
instances in between the servers.
Sharding consists of various parts such as replica sets and configuration servers. Before
discussing more about clustering and sharding, you need to learn the basic terms of cluster-
ing in MongoDB. In the next sections, we will discuss different aspects of the sharding ar-
chitecture.
