What Is a Good Shard Key

The ideal shard key distributes data evenly across the sharded cluster while also facilitating common query patterns. … In a sharded cluster, the mongos routes queries to only the shards that contain the relevant data if the queries contain the shard key.

Where do I get Sharding key?

As outlined in the Sharding Administration Docs, you can use db. printShardingStatus() to see this information. For sharded collections it will print the key pattern. You can login to any “mongos” instance (or config server instance) on the cluster and query against the collections collection.

What is MongoDB key?

Learn more about MongoDB Atlas. Key value databases, also known as key value stores, are database types where data is stored in a “key-value” format and optimized for reading and writing that data. The data is fetched by a unique key or a number of unique keys to retrieve the associated value with each key.

Alexander Ross

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