Chapter 3. Common MongoDB and Python Patterns

After some time working with MongoDB and Python to solve different problems, various patterns and best practices begin to emerge. Just as with any programming language and database system, there are established approaches for modeling data along with known methods for answering queries as quickly and efficiently as possible.

While there are myriad sources of such knowledge for traditional RDBM systems like MySQL, there are far fewer resources available for MongoDB. This chapter is an attempt to address this.