Database
18 articles
Mongoose vs MongoDB Driver: When to Use What
Should you reach for Mongoose or the native MongoDB driver? We have shipped both to production, and the honest answer is that neither one wins …
MongoDB Aggregation Pipeline Performance Tuning
MongoDB aggregation pipelines transform documents step by step; filtering, reshaping, grouping, and sorting them. On a collection of 1 million …
MongoDB Backup and Recovery: Disaster Prevention Strategies
MongoDB’s flexibility is great until something goes wrong. A careless delete script, hardware failure, or ransomware attack can wipe out your …
Amazon DynamoDB: The Complete Production Guide to NoSQL at Scale
Amazon DynamoDB represents AWS’s answer to the fundamental challenge of building databases that scale infinitely while maintaining predictable …
SQLite Nodejs Guide: Native Module Tutorial & Examples
The landscape of Nodejs database integration has evolved significantly with the introduction of the built-in node:sqlite module in Nodejs v22.5.0. …
Mongoose Population Deep Dive
Mongoose’s population feature is a powerful tool for working with related data in MongoDB. It allows you to reference documents in other …
MongoDB Security: Best Practices and Anti-Patterns
MongoDB is a leading NoSQL database and Mongoose is the de facto ODM (Object Document Mapper) for Node.js applications. However, security is often an …
Avoiding Common Mongoose Schema Design Anti-Patterns
MongoDB schema less flexibility combined with Mongoose’s rich feature set makes it a powerful combination for Nodejs applications. However, this …
Mastering Mongoose Transactions: A Comprehensive Guide
Mongoose serves as a powerful abstraction layer between Nodejs applications and MongoDB, providing schema validation, middleware hooks and elegant …
MongoDB Index Optimization: Boost Performance & Reduce Overhead
In the world of database optimization, indexes are like a double-edged sword. While they can dramatically improve query performance, having too many …