MongoDB Document Properties and Limitation

Document Size Limitations

MongoDB contains various types of different data types having different sizes and limitations. It’s our responsibilty to understand how to deal with these limitations to provide an effective storage strategy.

• Document in MongoDB should be below the range of 16 Megabytes(MB). As above this size it’s difficult to manage such complex datasets.
• If we want to exceed this limit we should consider alternative approaches such as GridFS for storing large files.

Monitoring and Maintenance

Monitoring and Maintenance is needed for securely deploying our MongoDB documents.

Monitoring

• We can Monintor the MongoDB documents via the internal performance tools available.
• We can create 3rd party solutions to understand the insights into database performance and resources utilisation.

Maintenance

• Regularly perform maintenance tasks, such as index optimization and compacting, to enhance query performance.
• Monitor disk space usage and plan for scaling resources as the database grows.

In a general context, a document is a written, drawn, or recorded representation of data. In MongoDB, a document is a unit of data storage and follows a JSON-like format with key-value pairs, providing flexibility in storing various data types.

The below article provides an overall overview of how MongoDB documents work, its size limitations, and monitoring strategies. We’ll explore document size limitations and will understand the number of documents inside a collection and its related aspects.