Automated Partitioning, Sharding and Failover in MongoDB

After significant time in development, sharding and replica sets have been incorporated into MongoDB with the 1.6.0 release. Why is this important?

Sharding will allow us to let MongoDB handle distribution of data across any number of nodes to maximise use of disk space and dynamically load balance queries. Replica sets provides automated failover and redundancy so you can be sure your data exists on any number of servers across multiple data centres.

This is definitely good news for MongoDB users. However, how do you set up replica sets and sharding? David Mytton, of Boxed Ice, has written a great tutorial, complete with videos on how to set up both replica sets and sharding on a MongoDB cluster.

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