Summary
In this chapter, you learned how to optimize your data model and use indexes to ensure efficient and performant applications. Effective schema design and index optimization are critical to the success of a MongoDB deployment. One of the most important benefits of MongoDB’s flexible data model is how it enables you to iterate on your schema design. As your application grows over time and business requirements change, you have options to seamlessly redesign your schema without downtime to ensure that your schema model best matches your data access patterns.
Through careful data modeling and index optimization, you can harness MongoDB’s capabilities to build scalable and high-performing applications. The chapter provided detailed guidance on aligning application requirements with database architecture for maximum efficiency.
In the next chapter, you will learn about queries in MongoDB, including new query features available in MongoDB 8.0. Now that you&...
