Data Expert: Mongolian Databases

What you'll learn

• What are NoSQL databases?
• What are the very basics of MongoDB?
• How to do data modeling with MongoDB?
• How to analyze data using MQL (MongoDB Query Language)?

Prerequisites

• Programming basics
• Being familiar with Git
• Basic understanding of what a database is
• Being familiar with the JSON format
• Installed and configured MongoDB Server; the Community Edition is sufficient enough (version 5 or higher)
• Installed and configured MongoDB Compass
• A fork of the start repository

Tasks

1. Fork the repository

Create a fork of the start repository.

Criteria:

• The repository is forked

2. Initialize

Initialize the database for the project.

Criteria:

• A new database exists
• The collection and data in the orders.json file are loaded into the database

Background materials

• 🎥 7 Database Paradigms
• 📖 Setting up a local MongoDB database
• ❗ MongoDB Compass: Import and Export Data
• 🍭 MongoDB Cheatsheet
• 🍭 MongoDB Aggregation Cheatsheet
• 🎥 Git in 100 seconds
• 🎥 Git Fork vs. Git Clone
• 🎥 Basics of Coding