Drupal and the rise of the documents
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This document discusses Drupal and MongoDB. It provides an overview of MongoDB as a document-oriented and schema-less database and compares its flexibility, power, speed, and scaling to relational databases. It also describes several Drupal modules that integrate MongoDB as a backend storage mechanism, including for blocks, caching, fields, sessions, queues, and search. Examples are provided of past sessions on using MongoDB with Drupal.
Drupal and the rise of the documents
- 1. Drupal and the rise of the Documents Claudio Beatrice (@omissis) Monday, December 5, 11 1
- 2. It was a warm summer evening in ancient Greece, when one of the greatest philosopher of all times(guess who? :) gave birth to the Theory of Forms, greatly contributing to Ontology, eg the study of the nature of being, existence or reality as such. Monday, December 5, 11 2
- 3. An entity(from greek εἶναι, “to be”) may be defined as a thing which is recognized as being capable of an independent existence and which can be uniquely identified. An entity is an abstraction from the complexities of some domain. When we speak of an entity we normally speak of some aspect of the real world which can be distinguished from other aspects of the real world. Monday, December 5, 11 3
- 4. Who did just say “yeah but whattabout relationships... A relationship captures how two or more entities are related to one another. Monday, December 5, 11 4
- 5. ... and tables?” Monday, December 5, 11 5
- 6. and btw, a question: Awesome! Count to 3 and go asking mr. Boyce and mr. Codd then Monday, December 5, 11 6
- 7. A quick look at Drupal’s system table This is quite a good example from “Master how to hammer a screw vol. 666”: there must be a better solution! Monday, December 5, 11 7
- 8. Introducing MongoDB • Document oriented • schema-less • json-style • Scalable • sharding • replica sets • Performant • Fully featured • indexes • queries • map/reduce • gridfs • geospatial functions • capped collections • journaling Monday, December 5, 11 8
- 9. Introducing MongoDB It looks like an interesting compromise between performance, scalability and number of functionalities Monday, December 5, 11 9
- 10. Oh noes! Philosophy again! Flexibility Power JSON documents provide a A consistent set of RDBMS schema-less, rich data features implemented such model that maps to native as secondary indexes, programming language dynamic queries, sorting, types upserts, aggregation plus his own ones such as gridfs and map/reduce Speed/Scaling Ease of use Embedded documents help Installing, configuring, avoiding heavy joins, while maintaining and using auto sharding makes quick MongoDB are all kept as and easy to scale out the easy as possible: more time database for your app, less for your server configuration Monday, December 5, 11 10
- 11. Ok then.. tell us about Drupal! mongodb - support library for the other modules mongodb_block - stores block information mongodb_cache - stores cache mongodb_field_storage - stores fields mongodb_session - stores sessions mongodb_queue - DrupalQueueInterface implementation mongodb_watchdog - store watchdog messages search_api_mongodb - backend storage mechanism for Search API Monday, December 5, 11 11
- 12. Time for a demo! Monday, December 5, 11 12
- 13. Stuff & references https://github.com/omissis/Drupal-MongoDB-Playhouse http://mongodb.org http://drupal.org/project/mongodb http://drupalwatchdog.com/1/1/performance-scalability- drupal-7 http://groups.drupal.org/node/183279 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity-relationship_model Monday, December 5, 11 13
- 14. Sessions from past Drupalcons San Francisco 2010 http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/ mongodb-humongous-drupal.html Copenhagen 2010 http://www.archive.org/details/Mongodb- HumongousDrupal_491 Chicago 2011 http://www.archive.org/details/ drupalconchi_day3_practical_mongo_db Monday, December 5, 11 14
- 15. The Next Big Drupal Things Drupal Dev Days 2012 Drupalcon EU 2012 Barcelona - June 15-17 Munich - August 20-23 Monday, December 5, 11 15
- 16. Claudio Beatrice http://twitter.com/#!/omissis http://agavee.com http://associazione.drupalitalia.org Monday, December 5, 11 16
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