Tag: mongodb

ec2-consistent-snapshot With Mongo

I setup MongoDB on my Amazon EC2 instance knowing full well that it would have to be backed up at some point. I also knew that by using XFS, I could take advantage of filesystem freezing in a similar fashion to LVM snapshots. I had remembered reading about backups on XFS with MySQL being done …

By eric

2011-04-21

Databases

Getting a Random Record From a MongoDB Collection

One of my issues with MongoDB is that, as of this writing, there is no way to retrieve a random record. In SQL, you can simply do something similar to “ORDER BY 1” (this varies depending on your flavor) and you can retrieve random records (at a slightly expensive query cost). There is not yet …

By eric

2010-08-09

Tag: mongodb

ec2-consistent-snapshot With Mongo

Getting a Random Record From a MongoDB Collection

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