Guide list

Monger documentation is organized as a number of guides, covering all kinds of topics.

We recommend that you read these guides, if possible, in this order:

Getting started

This guide combines an overview of Monger with a quick tutorial that helps you to get started with it. It should take about 10 minutes to read and study the provided code examples. This guide covers:

• Feature of Monger, why Monger was created
• Clojure and MongoDB version requirements
• How to add Monger dependency to your project
• Basic operations (create, read, update, delete)
• Overview of Monger Query DSL
• Overview of how Monger integrates with libraries like clojure.data.json and JodaTime.

Connecting to MongoDB

This guide covers:

• Connecting to MongoDB using connection options
• Connecting to MongoDB using connection URI
• Tuning database connection (concurrency level, automatic reconnection, timeouts, etc)
• Connecting in PaaS environments, for example, MongoHQ add-on on Heroku
• Choosing default database
• Working with multiple databases

Inserting Documents

This guide covers:

• Inserting documents
• Inserting batches of documents
• Checking database responses
• Validating data with Validateur, a Clojure validation library
• Setting default write concern
• Changing write concern for individual operations
• Working with multiple databases

Querying: finders and query DSL

This guide covers:

• Querying documents with Clojure
• Using query operators with Clojure
• Working with database cursors
• Using Monger Query DSL
• Working with multiple databases

Updating documents

This guide covers:

• Updating documents with Clojure
• Using atomic operations with Clojure
• Upserting documents
• Updating a single document vs multiple documents
• Overriding default write concern for individual operations
• Working with multiple databases

Deleting documents

This guide covers:

• Deleting documents with Clojure
• Deleting a single document vs multiple documents
• Working with multiple databases

Indexing and other collection operations

This guide covers:

• Creating indexes on MongoDB collections
• Dropping indexes
• Creating a capped collection
• Using MongoDB TTL collections (MongoDB 2.2+)
• Reindexing a collection
• Dropping a collection

Integration with other Clojure libraries

This guide covers:

• Monger's philosophy of "having batteries included"
• Integration with clojure.data.json
• Integration with clj-time and Joda Time
• Integration with clojure.core.cache: MongoDB-based Clojure cache protocol implementation
• Using MongoDB-backed Ring session stores
• Basic Noir integration example

Using MongoDB Map/Reduce

This guide covers:

• Using Map/Reduce with Clojure
• Storing and loading JavaScript functions from classpath

Using GridFS

This guide covers:

• Storing files on GridFS from Clojure
• Loading files from GridFS with Clojure

Using MongoDB Aggregation Framework (MongoDB 2.2+ only)

This guide covers:

• Using MongoDB 2.2 Aggregation Framework with Clojure

Using MongoDB commands

This guide covers:

• Performing MongoDB commands with Clojure

Miscellaneous

This guide covers miscellaneous topics:

• Logging configuration

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