UNIT – I

What is Big Data?

According to Gartner, the definition of Big Data –
“Big data” is high-volume, velocity, and variety information assets that demand cost-effective,
innovative forms of information processing for enhanced insight and decision making.”

This definition clearly answers the “What is Big Data?” question – Big Data refers to complex and
large data sets that have to be processed and analyzed to uncover valuable information that can
benefit businesses and organizations.

However, there are certain basic tenets of Big Data that will make it even simpler to answer what
is Big Data:
 It refers to a massive amount of data that keeps on growing exponentially with time.
 It is so voluminous that it cannot be processed or analyzed using conventional data
processing techniques.
 It includes data mining, data storage, data analysis, data sharing, and data visualization.
 The term is an all-comprehensive one including data, data frameworks, along with the tools
and techniques used to process and analyze the data.

The History of Big Data

Although the concept of big data itself is relatively new, the origins of large data sets go back to
the 1960s and '70s when the world of data was just getting started with the first data centers and
the development of the relational database.

Around 2005, people began to realize just how much data users generated through Facebook,
YouTube, and other online services. Hadoop (an open-source framework created specifically to
store and analyze big data sets) was developed that same year. NoSQL also began to gain
popularity during this time.

The development of open-source frameworks, such as Hadoop (and more recently, Spark) was
essential for the growth of big data because they make big data easier to work with and cheaper to
store. In the years since then, the volume of big data has skyrocketed. Users are still generating
huge amounts of data—but it’s not just humans who are doing it.

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), more objects and devices are connected to the
internet, gathering data on customer usage patterns and product performance. The emergence of
machine learning has produced still more data.

While big data has come far, its usefulness is only just beginning. Cloud computing has expanded
big data possibilities even further. The cloud offers truly elastic scalability, where developers can
simply spin up ad hoc clusters to test a subset of data.

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 Benefits of Big Data and Data Analytics

 Big data makes it possible for you to gain more complete answers because you have more
information.
 More complete answers mean more confidence in the data—which means a completely
different approach to tackling problems.

Types of Big Data

Now that we are on track with what is big data, let’s have a look at the types of big data:

a) Structured
Structured is one of the types of big data and By structured data, we mean data that can be
processed, stored, and retrieved in a fixed format. It refers to highly organized information that
can be readily and seamlessly stored and accessed from a database by simple search engine
algorithms. For instance, the employee table in a company database will be structured as the
employee details, their job positions, their salaries, etc., will be present in an organized manner.

b) Unstructured
Unstructured data refers to the data that lacks any specific form or structure whatsoever. This
makes it very difficult and time-consuming to process and analyze unstructured data. Email is an
example of unstructured data. Structured and unstructured are two important types of big data.

c) Semi-structured
Semi structured is the third type of big data. Semi-structured data pertains to the data containing
both the formats mentioned above, that is, structured and unstructured data. To be precise, it refers
to the data that although has not been classified under a particular repository (database), yet
contains vital information or tags that segregate individual elements within the data. Thus we come
to the end of types of data.

Characteristics of Big Data

Back in 2001, Gartner analyst Doug Laney listed the 3 ‘V’s of Big Data – Variety, Velocity, and
Volume. Let’s discuss the characteristics of big data.
These characteristics, isolated, are enough to know what big data is. Let’s look at them in depth:
a) Variety
Variety of Big Data refers to structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data that is gathered
from multiple sources. While in the past, data could only be collected from spreadsheets and
databases, today data comes in an array of forms such as emails, PDFs, photos, videos, audios, SM
posts, and so much more. Variety is one of the important characteristics of big data.

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 b) Velocity
Velocity essentially refers to the speed at which data is being created in real-time. In a broader
prospect, it comprises the rate of change, linking of incoming data sets at varying speeds, and
activity bursts.
c) Volume
Volume is one of the characteristics of big data. We already know that Big Data indicates huge
‘volumes’ of data that is being generated on a daily basis from various sources like social media
platforms, business processes, machines, networks, human interactions, etc. Such a large amount
of data is stored in data warehouses. Thus comes to the end of characteristics of big data.

Why is Big Data Important?

The importance of big data does not revolve around how much data a company has but how a
company utilizes the collected data. Every company uses data in its own way; the more efficiently
a company uses its data, the more potential it has to grow. The company can take data from any
source and analyze it to find answers which will enable:

1. Cost Savings: Some tools of Big Data like Hadoop and Cloud-Based Analytics can
bring cost advantages to business when large amounts of data are to be stored and these
tools also help in identifying more efficient ways of doing business.
2. Time Reductions: The high speed of tools like Hadoop and in-memory analytics can
easily identify new sources of data which helps businesses analyzing data immediately
and make quick decisions based on the learning.
3. Understand the market conditions: By analyzing big data you can get a better
understanding of current market conditions. For example, by analyzing customers’
purchasing behaviors, a company can find out the products that are sold the most and
produce products according to this trend. By this, it can get ahead of its competitors.
4. Control online reputation: Big data tools can do sentiment analysis. Therefore, you
can get feedback about who is saying what about your company. If you want to monitor
and improve the online presence of your business, then, big data tools can help in all
this.
5. Using Big Data Analytics to Boost Customer Acquisition and Retention
The customer is the most important asset any business depends on. There is no single
business that can claim success without first having to establish a solid customer base.
However, even with a customer base, a business cannot afford to disregard the high
competition it faces. If a business is slow to learn what customers are looking for, then
it is very easy to begin offering poor quality products. In the end, loss of clientele will
result, and this creates an adverse overall effect on business success. The use of big data
allows businesses to observe various customer related patterns and trends. Observing
customer behavior is important to trigger loyalty.
6. Using Big Data Analytics to Solve Advertisers Problem and Offer Marketing
Insights

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 Big data analytics can help change all business operations. This includes the ability to
match customer expectation, changing company’s product line and of course ensuring
that the marketing campaigns are powerful.
7. Big Data Analytics As a Driver of Innovations and Product Development
Another huge advantage of big data is the ability to help companies innovate and
redevelop their products.

Business Intelligence vs Big Data

Although Big Data and Business Intelligence are two technologies used to analyze data to help
companies in the decision-making process, there are differences between both of them. They differ
in the way they work as much as in the type of data they analyze.

Traditional BI methodology is based on the principle of grouping all business data into a central
server. Typically, this data is analyzed in offline mode, after storing the information in an
environment called Data Warehouse. The data is structured in a conventional relational database
with an additional set of indexes and forms of access to the tables (multidimensional cubes).

A Big Data solution differs in many aspects to BI to use. These are the main differences between
Big Data and Business Intelligence:

1. In a Big Data environment, information is stored on a distributed file system, rather than
on a central server. It is a much safer and more flexible space.
2. Big Data solutions carry the processing functions to the data, rather than the data to the
functions. As the analysis is centered on the information, it´s easier to handle larger
amounts of information in a more agile way.
3. Big Data can analyze data in different formats, both structured and unstructured. The
volume of unstructured data (those not stored in a traditional database) is growing at levels
much higher than the structured data. Nevertheless, its analysis carries different challenges.
Big Data solutions solve them by allowing a global analysis of various sources of
information.
4. Data processed by Big Data solutions can be historical or come from real-time sources.
Thus, companies can make decisions that affect their business in an agile and efficient way.
5. Big Data technology uses parallel mass processing (MPP) concepts, which improves the
speed of analysis. With MPP many instructions are executed simultaneously, and since the
various jobs are divided into several parallel execution parts, at the end the overall results
are reunited and presented. This allows you to analyze large volumes of information
quickly.

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 Big Data vs Data Warehouse

Big Data has become the reality of doing business for organizations today. There is a boom in the
amount of structured as well as raw data that floods every organization daily. If this data is
managed well, it can lead to powerful insights and quality decision making.

Big data analytics is the process of examining large data sets containing a variety of data types to
discover some knowledge in databases, to identify interesting patterns and establish relationships
to solve problems, market trends, customer preferences, and other useful information. Companies
and businesses that implement Big Data Analytics often reap several business benefits. Companies
implement Big Data Analytics because they want to make more informed business decisions.

A data warehouse (DW) is a collection of corporate information and data derived from operational
systems and external data sources. A data warehouse is designed to support business decisions by
allowing data consolidation, analysis and reporting at different aggregate levels. Data is populated
into the Data Warehouse through the processes of extraction, transformation and loading (ETL
tools). Data analysis tools, such as business intelligence software, access the data within the
warehouse.

Hadoop Environment Big Data Analytics

Hadoop is changing the perception of handling Big Data especially the unstructured data. Let’s
know how Apache Hadoop software library, which is a framework, plays a vital role in handling
Big Data. Apache Hadoop enables surplus data to be streamlined for any distributed processing
system across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It truly is made to scale
up from single servers to a large number of machines, each and every offering local computation,
and storage space. Instead of depending on hardware to provide high-availability, the library itself
is built to detect and handle breakdowns at the application layer, so providing an extremely
available service along with a cluster of computers, as both versions might be vulnerable to
failures.

Hadoop Community Package Consists of

 File system and OS level abstractions
 A MapReduce engine (either MapReduce or YARN)
 The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
 Java ARchive (JAR) files
 Scripts needed to start Hadoop
 Source code, documentation and a contribution section

Activities performed on Big Data

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  Store – Big data need to be collected in a seamless repository, and it is not necessary to
store in a single physical database.
 Process – The process becomes more tedious than traditional one in terms of cleansing,
enriching, calculating, transforming, and running algorithms.
 Access – There is no business sense of it at all when the data cannot be searched, retrieved
easily, and can be virtually showcased along the business lines.

Classification of analytics

Descriptive analytics
Descriptive analytics is a statistical method that is used to search and summarize historical data in
order to identify patterns or meaning.

Data aggregation and data mining are two techniques used in descriptive analytics to discover
historical data. Data is first gathered and sorted by data aggregation in order to make the datasets
more manageable by analysts.

Data mining describes the next step of the analysis and involves a search of the data to identify
patterns and meaning. Identified patterns are analyzed to discover the specific ways that learners
interacted with the learning content and within the learning environment.

Advantages:

 Quickly and easily report on the Return on Investment (ROI) by showing how performance
achieved business or target goals.

 Identify gaps and performance issues early - before they become problems.

 Identify specific learners who require additional support, regardless of how many students
or employees there are.

 Identify successful learners in order to offer positive feedback or additional resources.

 Analyze the value and impact of course design and learning resources.

Predictive analytics

Predictive Analytics is a statistical method that utilizes algorithms and machine learning to identify
trends in data and predict future behaviors

The software for predictive analytics has moved beyond the realm of statisticians and is becoming
more affordable and accessible for different markets and industries, including the field of learning
& development.

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 For online learning specifically, predictive analytics is often found incorporated in the Learning
Management System (LMS), but can also be purchased separately as specialized software.

For the learner, predictive forecasting could be as simple as a dashboard located on the main screen
after logging in to access a course. Analyzing data from past and current progress, visual indicators
in the dashboard could be provided to signal whether the employee was on track with training
requirements.

Advantages:

 Personalize the training needs of employees by identifying their gaps, strengths, and
weaknesses; specific learning resources and training can be offered to support individual
needs.

 Retain Talent by tracking and understanding employee career progression and forecasting
what skills and learning resources would best benefit their career paths. Knowing what skills
employees need also benefits the design of future training.

 Support employees who may be falling behind or not reaching their potential by offering
intervention support before their performance puts them at risk.

 Simplified reporting and visuals that keep everyone updated when predictive forecasting
is required.

Prescriptive analytics
Prescriptive analytics is a statistical method used to generate recommendations and make decisions
based on the computational findings of algorithmic models.

Generating automated decisions or recommendations requires specific and unique algorithmic

models and clear direction from those utilizing the analytical technique. A recommendation cannot
be generated without knowing what to look for or what problem is desired to be solved. In this
way, prescriptive analytics begins with a problem.

Example
A Training Manager uses predictive analysis to discover that most learners without a particular
skill will not complete the newly launched course. What could be done? Now prescriptive analytics
can be of assistance on the matter and help determine options for action. Perhaps an algorithm can
detect the learners who require that new course, but lack that particular skill, and send an automated
recommendation that they take an additional training resource to acquire the missing skill.

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 The accuracy of a generated decision or recommendation, however, is only as good as the quality
of data and the algorithmic models developed. What may work for one company’s training needs
may not make sense when put into practice in another company’s training department. Models are
generally recommended to be tailored for each unique situation and need.

Descriptive vs Predictive vs Prescriptive Analytics

Descriptive Analytics is focused solely on historical data.

You can think of Predictive Analytics as then using this historical data to develop statistical models
that will then forecast about future possibilities.

Prescriptive Analytics takes Predictive Analytics a step further and takes the possible forecasted
outcomes and predicts consequences for these outcomes.

What Big Data Analytics Challenges

1. Need For Synchronization Across Disparate Data Sources

As data sets are becoming bigger and more diverse, there is a big challenge to incorporate them
into an analytical platform. If this is overlooked, it will create gaps and lead to wrong messages
and insights.

2. Acute Shortage Of Professionals Who Understand Big Data Analysis

The analysis of data is important to make this voluminous amount of data being produced in every
minute, useful. With the exponential rise of data, a huge demand for big data scientists and Big
Data analysts has been created in the market. It is important for business organizations to hire a
data scientist having skills that are varied as the job of a data scientist is multidisciplinary. Another
major challenge faced by businesses is the shortage of professionals who understand Big Data
analysis. There is a sharp shortage of data scientists in comparison to the massive amount of data
being produced.

3. Getting Meaningful Insights Through The Use Of Big Data Analytics

It is imperative for business organizations to gain important insights from Big Data analytics, and
also it is important that only the relevant department has access to this information. A big challenge
faced by the companies in the Big Data analytics is mending this wide gap in an effective manner.

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 4. Getting Voluminous Data Into The Big Data Platform

It is hardly surprising that data is growing with every passing day. This simply indicates that
business organizations need to handle a large amount of data on daily basis. The amount and
variety of data available these days can overwhelm any data engineer and that is why it is
considered vital to make data accessibility easy and convenient for brand owners and managers.

5. Uncertainty Of Data Management Landscape

With the rise of Big Data, new technologies and companies are being developed every day.
However, a big challenge faced by the companies in the Big Data analytics is to find out which
technology will be best suited to them without the introduction of new problems and potential
risks.

6. Data Storage And Quality

Business organizations are growing at a rapid pace. With the tremendous growth of the companies
and large business organizations, increases the amount of data produced. The storage of this
massive amount of data is becoming a real challenge for everyone. Popular data storage options
like data lakes/ warehouses are commonly used to gather and store large quantities of unstructured
and structured data in its native format. The real problem arises when a data lakes/ warehouse try
to combine unstructured and inconsistent data from diverse sources, it encounters errors. Missing
data, inconsistent data, logic conflicts, and duplicates data all result in data quality challenges.

7. Security And Privacy Of Data

Once business enterprises discover how to use Big Data, it brings them a wide range of possibilities
and opportunities. However, it also involves the potential risks associated with big data when it
comes to the privacy and the security of the data. The Big Data tools used for analysis and storage
utilizes the data disparate sources. This eventually leads to a high risk of exposure of the data,
making it vulnerable. Thus, the rise of voluminous amount of data increases privacy and security
concerns.

Terminologies Used In Big Data Environments

 As-a-service infrastructure
Data-as-a-service, software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service – all refer to the idea that rather
than selling data, licences to use data, or platforms for running Big Data technology, it can be
provided “as a service”, rather than as a product. This reduces the upfront capital investment

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 necessary for customers to begin putting their data, or platforms, to work for them, as the provider
bears all of the costs of setting up and hosting the infrastructure. As a customer, as-a-service
infrastructure can greatly reduce the initial cost and setup time of getting Big Data initiatives up
and running.

 Data science
Data science is the professional field that deals with turning data into value such as new insights
or predictive models. It brings together expertise from fields including statistics, mathematics,
computer science, communication as well as domain expertise such as business knowledge. Data
scientist has recently been voted the No 1 job in the U.S., based on current demand and salary and
career opportunities.
 Data mining
Data mining is the process of discovering insights from data. In terms of Big Data, because it is so
large, this is generally done by computational methods in an automated way using methods such
as decision trees, clustering analysis and, most recently, machine learning. This can be thought of
as using the brute mathematical power of computers to spot patterns in data which would not be
visible to the human eye due to the complexity of the dataset.
 Hadoop
Hadoop is a framework for Big Data computing which has been released into the public domain
as open source software, and so can freely be used by anyone. It consists of a number of modules
all tailored for a different vital step of the Big Data process – from file storage (Hadoop File System
– HDFS) to database (HBase) to carrying out data operations (Hadoop MapReduce – see below).
It has become so popular due to its power and flexibility that it has developed its own industry of
retailers (selling tailored versions), support service providers and consultants.
 Predictive modelling
At its simplest, this is predicting what will happen next based on data about what has happened
previously. In the Big Data age, because there is more data around than ever before, predictions
are becoming more and more accurate. Predictive modelling is a core component of most Big Data
initiatives, which are formulated to help us choose the course of action which will lead to the most
desirable outcome. The speed of modern computers and the volume of data available means that
predictions can be made based on a huge number of variables, allowing an ever-increasing number
of variables to be assessed for the probability that it will lead to success.
 MapReduce
MapReduce is a computing procedure for working with large datasets, which was devised due to
difficulty of reading and analysing really Big Data using conventional computing methodologies.
As its name suggest, it consists of two procedures – mapping (sorting information into the format
needed for analysis – i.e. sorting a list of people according to their age) and reducing (performing
an operation, such checking the age of everyone in the dataset to see who is over 21).

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  NoSQL
NoSQL refers to a database format designed to hold more than data which is simply arranged into
tables, rows, and columns, as is the case in a conventional relational database. This database format
has proven very popular in Big Data applications because Big Data is often messy, unstructured
and does not easily fit into traditional database frameworks.
 Python
Python is a programming language which has become very popular in the Big Data space due to
its ability to work very well with large, unstructured datasets (see Part II for the difference between
structured and unstructured data). It is considered to be easier to learn for a data science beginner
than other languages such as R (see also Part II) and more flexible.
 R Programming
R is another programming language commonly used in Big Data, and can be thought of as more
specialised than Python, being geared towards statistics. Its strength lies in its powerful handling
of structured data. Like Python, it has an active community of users who are constantly expanding
and adding to its capabilities by creating new libraries and extensions.
 Recommendation engine
A recommendation engine is basically an algorithm, or collection of algorithms, designed to match
an entity (for example, a customer) with something they are looking for. Recommendation engines
used by the likes of Netflix or Amazon heavily rely on Big Data technology to gain an overview
of their customers and, using predictive modelling, match them with products to buy or content to
consume. The economic incentives offered by recommendation engines has been a driving force
behind a lot of commercial Big Data initiatives and developments over the last decade.
 Real-time
Real-time means “as it happens” and in Big Data refers to a system or process which is able to
give data-driven insights based on what is happening at the present moment. Recent years have
seen a large push for the development of systems capable of processing and offering insights in
real-time (or near-real-time), and advances in computing power as well as development of
techniques such as machine learning have made it a reality in many applications today.
 Reporting
The crucial “last step” of many Big Data initiative involves getting the right information to the
people who need it to make decisions, at the right time. When this step is automated, analytics is
applied to the insights themselves to ensure that they are communicated in a way that they will be
understood and easy to act on. This will usually involve creating multiple reports based on the
same data or insights but each intended for a different audience (for example, in-depth technical
analysis for engineers, and an overview of the impact on the bottom line for c-level executives).
 Spark

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 Spark is another open source framework like Hadoop but more recently developed and more suited
to handling cutting-edge Big Data tasks involving real time analytics and machine learning. Unlike
Hadoop it does not include its own filesystem, though it is designed to work with Hadoop’s HDFS
or a number of other options. However, for certain data related processes it is able to calculate at
over 100 times the speed of Hadoop, thanks to its in-memory processing capability. This means it
is becoming an increasingly popular choice for projects involving deep learning, neural networks
and other compute-intensive tasks.
 Structured Data
Structured data is simply data that can be arranged neatly into charts and tables consisting of rows,
columns or multi-dimensioned matrixes. This is traditionally the way that computers have stored
data, and information in this format can easily and simply be processed and mined for insights.
Data gathered from machines is often a good example of structured data, where various data points
– speed, temperature, rate of failure, RPM etc. – can be neatly recorded and tabulated for analysis.
 Unstructured Data
Unstructured data is any data which cannot easily be put into conventional charts and tables. This
can include video data, pictures, recorded sounds, text written in human languages and a great deal
more. This data has traditionally been far harder to draw insight from using computers which were
generally designed to read and analyze structured information. However, since it has become
apparent that a huge amount of value can be locked away in this unstructured data, great efforts
have been made to create applications which are capable of understanding unstructured data – for
example visual recognition and natural language processing.
 Visualization
Humans find it very hard to understand and draw insights from large amounts of text or numerical
data – we can do it, but it takes time, and our concentration and attention is limited. For this reason
effort has been made to develop computer applications capable of rendering information in a visual
form – charts and graphics which highlight the most important insights which have resulted from
our Big Data projects. A subfield of reporting (see above), visualizing is now often an automated
process, with visualizations customized by algorithm to be understandable to the people who need
to act or take decisions based on them.

Basic availability, Soft state and Eventual consistency

Basic availability implies continuous system availability despite network failures and tolerance
to temporary inconsistency.

Soft state refers to state change without input which is required for eventual consistency.

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 Eventual consistency means that if no further updates are made to a given updated database item
for long enough period of time , all users will see the same value for the updated item.

Top Analytics Tools

* R is a language for statistical computing and graphics. It also used for big data analysis. It
provides a wide variety of statistical tests.

Features:

 Effective data handling and storage facility,

 It provides a suite of operators for calculations on arrays, in particular, matrices,
 It provides coherent, integrated collection of big data tools for data analysis
 It provides graphical facilities for data analysis which display either on-screen or on
hardcopy

* Apache Spark is a powerful open source big data analytics tool. It offers over 80 high-level
operators that make it easy to build parallel apps. It is used at a wide range of organizations to
process large datasets.

Features:

 It helps to run an application in Hadoop cluster, up to 100 times faster in memory, and ten
times faster on disk
 It offers lighting Fast Processing
 Support for Sophisticated Analytics
 Ability to Integrate with Hadoop and Existing Hadoop Data

* Plotly is an analytics tool that lets users create charts and dashboards to share online.

Features:

 Easily turn any data into eye-catching and informative graphics

 It provides audited industries with fine-grained information on data provenance
 Plotly offers unlimited public file hosting through its free community plan

* Lumify is a big data fusion, analysis, and visualization platform. It helps users to discover
connections and explore relationships in their data via a suite of analytic options.

Features:

 It provides both 2D and 3D graph visualizations with a variety of automatic layouts

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  It provides a variety of options for analyzing the links between entities on the graph
 It comes with specific ingest processing and interface elements for textual content, images,
and videos
 It spaces feature allows you to organize work into a set of projects, or workspaces
 It is built on proven, scalable big data technologies

* IBM SPSS Modeler is a predictive big data analytics platform. It offers predictive models and
delivers to individuals, groups, systems and the enterprise. It has a range of advanced algorithms
and analysis techniques.

Features:

 Discover insights and solve problems faster by analyzing structured and unstructured data
 Use an intuitive interface for everyone to learn
 You can select from on-premises, cloud and hybrid deployment options
 Quickly choose the best performing algorithm based on model performance

* MongoDB is a NoSQL, document-oriented database written in C, C++, and JavaScript. It is free

to use and is an open source tool that supports multiple operating systems including Windows
Vista ( and later versions), OS X (10.7 and later versions), Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD.

Its main features include Aggregation, Adhoc-queries, Uses BSON format, Sharding, Indexing,
Replication, Server-side execution of javascript, Schemaless, Capped collection, MongoDB
management service (MMS), load balancing and file storage.

Features:

 Easy to learn.
 Provides support for multiple technologies and platforms.
 No hiccups in installation and maintenance.
 Reliable and low cost.

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 UNIT II
NoSQL

NoSQL is a non-relational DMS, that does not require a fixed schema, avoids joins, and is easy to
scale. NoSQL database is used for distributed data stores with humongous data storage needs.
NoSQL is used for Big data and real-time web apps. For example companies like Twitter,
Facebook, Google that collect terabytes of user data every single day.

SQL

Structured Query language (SQL) pronounced as "S-Q-L" or sometimes as "See-Quel" is the

standard language for dealing with Relational Databases. A relational database defines
relationships in the form of tables.

SQL programming can be effectively used to insert, search, update, delete database records.

Comparison of SQL and NoSQL

Parameter SQL NOSQL

Definition SQL databases are primarily called NoSQL databases are primarily called as Non-
RDBMS or Relational Databases relational or distributed database
Design for Traditional RDBMS uses SQL NoSQL database system consists of various
syntax and queries to analyze and kind of database technologies. These databases
get the data for further insights. were developed in response to the demands
They are used for OLAP systems. presented for the development of the modern
application.
Query Structured query language (SQL) No declarative query language
Language
Type SQL databases are table based NoSQL databases can be document based, key-
databases value pairs, graph databases
Schema SQL databases have a predefined NoSQL databases use dynamic schema for
schema unstructured data.
Ability to scale SQL databases are vertically NoSQL databases are horizontally scalable
scalable
Examples Oracle, Postgres, and MS-SQL. MongoDB, Redis, , Neo4j, Cassandra, Hbase.
Best suited for An ideal choice for the complex It is not good fit complex queries.
query intensive environment.
Hierarchical SQL databases are not suitable for More suitable for the hierarchical data store as it
data storage hierarchical data storage. supports key-value pair method.
Variations One type with minor variations. Many different types which include key-value
stores, document databases, and graph
databases.

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 Development It was developed in the 1970s to Developed in the late 2000s to overcome issues
Year deal with issues with flat file and limitations of SQL databases.
storage
Open-source A mix of open-source like Postgres Open-source
& MySQL, and commercial like
Oracle Database.
Consistency It should be configured for strong It depends on DBMS as some offers strong
consistency. consistency like MongoDB, whereas others
offer only offers eventual consistency, like
Cassandra.
Best Used for RDBMS database is the right NoSQL is a best used for solving data
option for solving ACID problems. availability problems
Importance It should be used when data validity Use when it's more important to have fast data
is super important than correct data
Best option When you need to support dynamic Use when you need to scale based on changing
queries requirements
Hardware Specialized DB hardware (Oracle Commodity hardware
Exadata, etc.)
Network Highly available network Commodity network (Ethernet, etc.)
(Infiniband, Fabric Path, etc.)
Storage Type Highly Available Storage (SAN, Commodity drives storage (standard HDDs,
RAID, etc.) JBOD)
Best features Cross-platform support, Secure and Easy to use, High performance, and Flexible
free tool.
Top Hootsuite, CircleCI, Gauges Airbnb, Uber, Kickstarter
Companies
Using
Average salary
The average salary for any The average salary for "NoSQL developer"
professional SQL Developer is ranges from approximately $72,174 per year
$84,328 per year in the U.S.A.
ACID vs. ACID( Atomicity, Consistency, Base ( Basically Available, Soft state,
BASE Model Isolation, and Durability) is a Eventually Consistent) is a model of many
standard for RDBMS NoSQL systems

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 RDBMS Versus Hadoop

Distributed Computing Challenges

Designing a distributed system does not come as easy and straight forward. A number
of challenges need to be overcome in order to get the ideal system. The major challenges in
distributed systems are listed below:

1. Heterogeneity:
The Internet enables users to access services and run applications over a heterogeneous collection
of computers and networks. Heterogeneity (that is, variety and difference) applies to all of the
following:

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 o Hardware devices: computers, tablets, mobile phones, embedded devices, etc.
o Operating System: Ms Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, etc.
o Network: Local network, the Internet, wireless network, satellite links, etc.
o Programming languages: Java, C/C++, Python, PHP, etc.
o Different roles of software developers, designers, system managers
Different programming languages use different representations for characters and data structures
such as arrays and records. These differences must be addressed if programs written in different
languages are to be able to communicate with one another. Programs written by different
developers cannot communicate with one another unless they use common standards, for example,
for network communication and the
representation of primitive data items and data structures in messages. For this to happen, standards
need to be agreed and adopted – as have the Internet protocols.
Middleware: The term middleware applies to a software layer that provides a programming
abstraction as well as masking the heterogeneity of the underlying networks, hardware, operating
systems and programming languages. Most middleware is implemented over the Internet
protocols, which themselves mask the differences of the underlying networks, but all middleware
deals with the differences in operating systems
and hardware
Heterogeneity and mobile code: The term mobile code is used to refer to program code that can
be transferred from one computer to another and run at the destination – Java applets are an
example. Code suitable for running on one computer is not necessarily suitable for running on
another because executable programs are normally specific both to the instruction set and to the
host operating system.
2. Transparency:
Transparency is defined as the concealment from the user and the application programmer of the
separation of components in a distributed system, so that the system is perceived as a whole rather
than as a collection of independent components. In other words, distributed systems designers must
hide the complexity of the systems as much as they can. Some terms of transparency in distributed
systems are:
Access Hide differences in data representation and how a resource is accessed
Location Hide where a resource is located
Migration Hide that a resource may move to another location
Relocation Hide that a resource may be moved to another location while in use
Replication Hide that a resource may be copied in several places
Concurrency Hide that a resource may be shared by several competitive users
Failure Hide the failure and recovery of a resource
Persistence Hide whether a (software) resource is in memory or a disk
3. Openness
The openness of a computer system is the characteristic that determines whether the system can
be extended and re-implemented in various ways. The openness of distributed systems is
determined primarily by the degree to which new resource-sharing services can be added and be

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 made available for use by a variety of client programs. If the well-defined interfaces for a system
are published, it is easier for developers to add new features or replace sub-systems in the future.
Example: Twitter and Facebook have API that allows developers to develop their own software
interactively.

4. Concurrency
Both services and applications provide resources that can be shared by clients in a distributed
system. There is therefore a possibility that several clients will attempt to access a shared resource
at the same time. For example, a data structure that records bids for an auction may be accessed
very frequently when it gets close to the deadline time. For an object to be safe in a concurrent
environment, its operations must be synchronized in such a way that its data remains consistent.
This can be achieved by standard techniques such as semaphores, which are used in most operating
systems.

5. Security
Many of the information resources that are made available and maintained in distributed systems
have a high intrinsic value to their users. Their security is therefore of considerable importance.
Security for information resources has three components:
confidentiality (protection against disclosure to unauthorized individuals)
integrity (protection against alteration or corruption),
availability for the authorized (protection against interference with the means to access the
resources).
6. Scalability
Distributed systems must be scalable as the number of user increases. The scalability is defined by
B. Clifford Neuman as

A system is said to be scalable if it can handle the addition of users and resources without suffering
a noticeable loss of performance or increase in administrative complexity
Scalability has 3 dimensions:

o Size
o Number of users and resources to be processed. Problem associated is overloading
o Geography
o Distance between users and resources. Problem associated is communication reliability
o Administration
o As the size of distributed systems increases, many of the system needs to be controlled.
Problem associated is administrative mess
7. Failure Handling
Computer systems sometimes fail. When faults occur in hardware or software, programs may
produce incorrect results or may stop before they have completed the intended computation. The
handling of failures is particularly difficult.

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 Hadoop Overview

Hadoop is an Apache open source framework written in java that allows distributed processing
of large datasets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. The Hadoop
framework application works in an environment that provides
distributed storage and computation across clusters of computers. Hadoop is designed to scale up
from single server to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage.

Hadoop Architecture

At its core, Hadoop has two major layers namely −

 Processing/Computation layer (MapReduce), and

 Storage layer (Hadoop Distributed File System).

MapReduce

MapReduce is a parallel programming model for writing distributed applications devised at

Google for efficient processing of large amounts of data (multi-terabyte data-sets), on large
clusters (thousands of nodes) of commodity hardware in a reliable, fault-tolerant manner. The
MapReduce program runs on Hadoop which is an Apache open-source framework.

Hadoop Distributed File System

The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is based on the Google File System (GFS) and
provides a distributed file system that is designed to run on commodity hardware. It has many

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 similarities with existing distributed file systems. However, the differences from other distributed
file systems are significant. It is highly fault-tolerant and is designed to be deployed on low-cost
hardware. It provides high throughput access to application data and is suitable for applications
having large datasets.
Apart from the above-mentioned two core components, Hadoop framework also includes the
following two modules −
 Hadoop Common − These are Java libraries and utilities required by other Hadoop
modules.
 Hadoop YARN − This is a framework for job scheduling and cluster resource
management.

How Does Hadoop Work?

It is quite expensive to build bigger servers with heavy configurations that handle large scale
processing, but as an alternative, you can tie together many commodity computers with single-
CPU, as a single functional distributed system and practically, the clustered machines can read
the dataset in parallel and provide a much higher throughput. Moreover, it is cheaper than one
high-end server. So this is the first motivational factor behind using Hadoop that it runs across
clustered and low-cost machines.
Hadoop runs code across a cluster of computers. This process includes the following core tasks
that Hadoop performs −
 Data is initially divided into directories and files. Files are divided into uniform sized
blocks of 128M and 64M (preferably 128M).
 These files are then distributed across various cluster nodes for further processing.
 HDFS, being on top of the local file system, supervises the processing.
 Blocks are replicated for handling hardware failure.
 Checking that the code was executed successfully.
 Performing the sort that takes place between the map and reduce stages.
 Sending the sorted data to a certain computer.
 Writing the debugging logs for each job.

Advantages of Hadoop

 Hadoop framework allows the user to quickly write and test distributed systems. It is
efficient, and it automatic distributes the data and work across the machines and in turn,
utilizes the underlying parallelism of the CPU cores.

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  Hadoop does not rely on hardware to provide fault-tolerance and high availability (FTHA),
rather Hadoop library itself has been designed to detect and handle failures at the
application layer.
 Servers can be added or removed from the cluster dynamically and Hadoop continues to
operate without interruption.
 Another big advantage of Hadoop is that apart from being open source, it is compatible on
all the platforms since it is Java based.
Processing Data with Hadoop - Managing Resources and Applications with Hadoop YARN

Yarn divides the task on resource management and job scheduling/monitoring into separate
daemons. There is one ResourceManager and per-application ApplicationMaster. An application
can be either a job or a DAG of jobs.
The ResourceManger have two components – Scheduler and AppicationManager.

The scheduler is a pure scheduler i.e. it does not track the status of running application. It only
allocates resources to various competing applications. Also, it does not restart the job after failure
due to hardware or application failure. The scheduler allocates the resources based on an abstract
notion of a container. A container is nothing but a fraction of resources like CPU, memory, disk,
network etc.
Following are the tasks of ApplicationManager:-

 Accepts submission of jobs by client.

 Negotaites first container for specific ApplicationMaster.
 Restarts the container after application failure.
Below are the responsibilities of ApplicationMaster

 Negotiates containers from Scheduler

 Tracking container status and monitoring its progress.
Yarn supports the concept of Resource Reservation via Reservation System. In this, a user can fix
a number of resources for execution of a particular job over time and temporal constraints. The
Reservation System makes sure that the resources are available to the job until its completion. It
also performs admission control for reservation.

Yarn can scale beyond a few thousand nodes via Yarn Federation. YARN Federation allows to
wire multiple sub-cluster into the single massive cluster. We can use many independent clusters
together for a single large job. It can be used to achieve a large scale system.

Let us summarize how Hadoop works step by step:

 Input data is broken into blocks of size 128 Mb and then blocks are moved to different nodes.
 Once all the blocks of the data are stored on data-nodes, the user can process the data.
 Resource Manager then schedules the program (submitted by the user) on individual nodes.
 Once all the nodes process the data, the output is written back to HDFS.

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 Interacting with Hadoop Ecosystem
Hadoop Ecosystem Hadoop has an ecosystem that has evolved from its three core components
processing, resource management, and storage. In this topic, you will learn the components of the
Hadoop ecosystem and how they perform their roles during Big Data processing. The
Hadoop ecosystem is continuously growing to meet the needs of Big Data. It comprises the
following twelve components:

 HDFS(Hadoop Distributed file system)

 HBase
 Sqoop
 Flume
 Spark
 Hadoop MapReduce
 Pig
 Impala
 Hive
 Cloudera Search
 Oozie
 Hue.

Let us understand the role of each component of the Hadoop ecosystem.

Components of Hadoop Ecosystem

Let us start with the first component HDFS of Hadoop Ecosystem.

HDFS (HADOOP DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM)

 HDFS is a storage layer for Hadoop.

 HDFS is suitable for distributed storage and processing, that is, while the data is being
stored, it first gets distributed and then it is processed.
 HDFS provides Streaming access to file system data.
 HDFS provides file permission and authentication.
 HDFS uses a command line interface to interact with Hadoop.

So what stores data in HDFS? It is the HBase which stores data in HDFS.

HBase
 HBase is a NoSQL database or non-relational database .
 HBase is important and mainly used when you need random, real-time, read, or write
access to your Big Data.
 It provides support to a high volume of data and high throughput.
 In an HBase, a table can have thousands of columns.

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 UNIT-III
INTRODUCTION TO MONGODB AND MAPREDUCE PROGRAMMING

MongoDB is a cross-platform, document-oriented database that provides, high performance, high

availability, and easy scalability. MongoDB works on concept of collection and document.

Database

Database is a physical container for collections. Each database gets its own set of files on the file
system. A single MongoDB server typically has multiple databases.

Collection

Collection is a group of MongoDB documents. It is the equivalent of an RDBMS table. A

collection exists within a single database. Collections do not enforce a schema. Documents within
a collection can have different fields. Typically, all documents in a collection are of similar or
related purpose.

Document

A document is a set of key-value pairs. Documents have dynamic schema. Dynamic schema means
that documents in the same collection do not need to have the same set of fields or structure, and
common fields in a collection's documents may hold different types of data.

The following table shows the relationship of RDBMS terminology with MongoDB.

RDBMS MongoDB

Database Database

Table Collection

Tuple/Row Document

column Field

Table Join Embedded Documents

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 Primary Key Primary Key (Default key _id provided by
MongoDB itself)

Database Server and Client

mysqld/Oracle mongod

mysql/sqlplus mongo

Sample Document

Following example shows the document structure of a blog site, which is simply a comma
separated key value pair.

_id: ObjectId(7df78ad8902c)

title: 'MongoDB Overview',

description: 'MongoDB is no sql database',

by: 'tutorials point',

url: 'http://www.tutorialspoint.com',

tags: ['mongodb', 'database', 'NoSQL'],

likes: 100,

comments: [

user:'user1',

message: 'My first comment',

dateCreated: new Date(2011,1,20,2,15),

like: 0

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 },

user:'user2',

message: 'My second comments',

dateCreated: new Date(2011,1,25,7,45),

like: 5

_id is a 12 bytes hexadecimal number which assures the uniqueness of every document. You can
provide _id while inserting the document. If you don’t provide then MongoDB provides a unique
id for every document. These 12 bytes first 4 bytes for the current timestamp, next 3 bytes for
machine id, next 2 bytes for process id of MongoDB server and remaining 3 bytes are simple
incremental VALUE.

Any relational database has a typical schema design that shows number of tables and the
relationship between these tables. While in MongoDB, there is no concept of relationship.

Advantages of MongoDB over RDBMS

 Schema less − MongoDB is a document database in which one collection holds different
documents. Number of fields, content and size of the document can differ from one
document to another.
 Structure of a single object is clear.
 No complex joins.
 Deep query-ability. MongoDB supports dynamic queries on documents using a document-
based query language that's nearly as powerful as SQL.
 Tuning.
 Ease of scale-out − MongoDB is easy to scale.
 Conversion/mapping of application objects to database objects not needed.
 Uses internal memory for storing the (windowed) working set, enabling faster access of
data.

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 Why Use MongoDB?

 Document Oriented Storage − Data is stored in the form of JSON style documents.
 Index on any attribute
 Replication and high availability
 Auto-Sharding
 Rich queries
 Fast in-place updates
 Professional support by MongoDB

Where to Use MongoDB?

 Big Data
 Content Management and Delivery
 Mobile and Social Infrastructure
 User Data Management
 Data Hub
MongoDB supports many datatypes. Some of them are −
 String − This is the most commonly used datatype to store the data. String in MongoDB
must be UTF-8 valid.
 Integer − This type is used to store a numerical value. Integer can be 32 bit or 64 bit
depending upon your server.
 Boolean − This type is used to store a boolean (true/ false) value.
 Double − This type is used to store floating point values.
 Min/ Max keys − This type is used to compare a value against the lowest and highest
BSON elements.
 Arrays − This type is used to store arrays or list or multiple values into one key.
 Timestamp − ctimestamp. This can be handy for recording when a document has been
modified or added.
 Object − This datatype is used for embedded documents.
 Null − This type is used to store a Null value.
 Symbol − This datatype is used identically to a string; however, it's generally reserved for
languages that use a specific symbol type.
 Date − This datatype is used to store the current date or time in UNIX time format. You
can specify your own date time by creating object of Date and passing day, month, year
into it.
 Object ID − This datatype is used to store the document’s ID.

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  Binary data − This datatype is used to store binary data.
 Code − This datatype is used to store JavaScript code into the document.
 Regular expression − This datatype is used to store regular expression.

The find() Method

To query data from MongoDB collection, you need to use MongoDB's find() method.

Syntax

The basic syntax of find() method is as follows −

>db.COLLECTION_NAME.find()
find() method will display all the documents in a non-structured way.

Example

Assume we have created a collection named mycol as −

> use sampleDB
switched to db sampleDB
> db.createCollection("mycol")
{ "ok" : 1 }
>
And inserted 3 documents in it using the insert() method as shown below −
> db.mycol.insert([
{
title: "MongoDB Overview",
description: "MongoDB is no SQL database",
by: "tutorials point",
url: "http://www.tutorialspoint.com",
tags: ["mongodb", "database", "NoSQL"],
likes: 100
},
{
title: "NoSQL Database",
description: "NoSQL database doesn't have tables",
by: "tutorials point",
url: "http://www.tutorialspoint.com",
tags: ["mongodb", "database", "NoSQL"],
likes: 20,
comments: [

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 {
user:"user1",
message: "My first comment",
dateCreated: new Date(2013,11,10,2,35),
like: 0
}
]
}
])
Following method retrieves all the documents in the collection −
> db.mycol.find()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5dd4e2cc0821d3b44607534c"), "title" : "MongoDB Overview", "description"
: "MongoDB is no SQL database", "by" : "tutorials point", "url" : "http://www.tutorialspoint.com",
"tags" : [ "mongodb", "database", "NoSQL" ], "likes" : 100 }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("5dd4e2cc0821d3b44607534d"), "title" : "NoSQL Database", "description" :
"NoSQL database doesn't have tables", "by" : "tutorials point", "url" :
"http://www.tutorialspoint.com", "tags" : [ "mongodb", "database", "NoSQL" ], "likes" : 20,
"comments" : [ { "user" : "user1", "message" : "My first comment", "dateCreated" :
ISODate("2013-12-09T21:05:00Z"), "like" : 0 } ] }
>

The pretty() Method

To display the results in a formatted way, you can use pretty() method.

Syntax

>db.COLLECTION_NAME.find().pretty()

Example

Following example retrieves all the documents from the collection named mycol and arranges
them in an easy-to-read format.
> db.mycol.find().pretty()
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5dd4e2cc0821d3b44607534c"),
"title" : "MongoDB Overview",
"description" : "MongoDB is no SQL database",
"by" : "tutorials point",
"url" : "http://www.tutorialspoint.com",
"tags" : [
"mongodb",
"database",
"NoSQL"
],
"likes" : 100

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 }
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5dd4e2cc0821d3b44607534d"),
"title" : "NoSQL Database",
"description" : "NoSQL database doesn't have tables",
"by" : "tutorials point",
"url" : "http://www.tutorialspoint.com",
"tags" : [
"mongodb",
"database",
"NoSQL"
],
"likes" : 20,
"comments" : [
{
"user" : "user1",
"message" : "My first comment",
"dateCreated" : ISODate("2013-12-09T21:05:00Z"),
"like" : 0
}
]
}

The findOne() method

Apart from the find() method, there is findOne() method, that returns only one document.

Syntax

>db.COLLECTIONNAME.findOne()

Example

Following example retrieves the document with title MongoDB Overview.

> db.mycol.findOne({title: "MongoDB Overview"})
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5dd6542170fb13eec3963bf0"),
"title" : "MongoDB Overview",
"description" : "MongoDB is no SQL database",
"by" : "tutorials point",
"url" : "http://www.tutorialspoint.com",
"tags" : [
"mongodb",
"database",
"NoSQL"
],
"likes" : 100

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 }

RDBMS Where Clause Equivalents in MongoDB

To query the document on the basis of some condition, you can use following operations.

Operation Syntax Example RDBMS

Equivalent

Equality {<key>:{$eg;<value>}} db.mycol.find({"by":"tutorials where by =

point"}).pretty() 'tutorials
point'

Less Than {<key>:{$lt:<value>}} db.mycol.find({"likes":{$lt:50}}).pretty() where likes

< 50

Less Than {<key>:{$lte:<value>}} db.mycol.find({"likes":{$lte:50}}).pretty() where likes

Equals <= 50

Greater {<key>:{$gt:<value>}} db.mycol.find({"likes":{$gt:50}}).pretty() where likes

Than > 50

Greater {<key>:{$gte:<value>}} db.mycol.find({"likes":{$gte:50}}).pretty() where likes

Than >= 50
Equals

Not {<key>:{$ne:<value>}} db.mycol.find({"likes":{$ne:50}}).pretty() where likes

Equals != 50

Values in {<key>:{$in:[<value1>, db.mycol.find({"name":{$in:["Raj", Where

an array <value2>,……<valueN>]}} "Ram", "Raghu"]}}).pretty() name
matches
any of the
value in
:["Raj",
"Ram",
"Raghu"]

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 Values not {<key>:{$nin:<value>}} db.mycol.find({"name":{$nin:["Ramu", Where
in an array "Raghav"]}}).pretty() name
values is
not in the
array
:["Ramu",
"Raghav"]
or, doesn’t
exist at all

AND in MongoDB

Syntax

To query documents based on the AND condition, you need to use $and keyword. Following is
the basic syntax of AND −
>db.mycol.find({ $and: [ {<key1>:<value1>}, { <key2>:<value2>} ] })

Example

Following example will show all the tutorials written by 'tutorials point' and whose title is
'MongoDB Overview'.
> db.mycol.find({$and:[{"by":"tutorials point"},{"title": "MongoDB Overview"}]}).pretty()
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5dd4e2cc0821d3b44607534c"),
"title" : "MongoDB Overview",
"description" : "MongoDB is no SQL database",
"by" : "tutorials point",
"url" : "http://www.tutorialspoint.com",
"tags" : [
"mongodb",
"database",
"NoSQL"
],
"likes" : 100
}
>
For the above given example, equivalent where clause will be ' where by = 'tutorials point'
AND title = 'MongoDB Overview' '. You can pass any number of key, value pairs in find clause.

OR in MongoDB

Syntax

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 To query documents based on the OR condition, you need to use $or keyword. Following is the
basic syntax of OR −
>db.mycol.find(
{
$or: [
{key1: value1}, {key2:value2}
]
}
).pretty()

Example

Following example will show all the tutorials written by 'tutorials point' or whose title is
'MongoDB Overview'.
>db.mycol.find({$or:[{"by":"tutorials point"},{"title": "MongoDB Overview"}]}).pretty()
{
"_id": ObjectId(7df78ad8902c),
"title": "MongoDB Overview",
"description": "MongoDB is no sql database",
"by": "tutorials point",
"url": "http://www.tutorialspoint.com",
"tags": ["mongodb", "database", "NoSQL"],
"likes": "100"
}
>

Using AND and OR Together

Example

The following example will show the documents that have likes greater than 10 and whose title
is either 'MongoDB Overview' or by is 'tutorials point'. Equivalent SQL where clause is 'where
likes>10 AND (by = 'tutorials point' OR title = 'MongoDB Overview')'
>db.mycol.find({"likes": {$gt:10}, $or: [{"by": "tutorials point"},
{"title": "MongoDB Overview"}]}).pretty()
{
"_id": ObjectId(7df78ad8902c),
"title": "MongoDB Overview",
"description": "MongoDB is no sql database",
"by": "tutorials point",
"url": "http://www.tutorialspoint.com",
"tags": ["mongodb", "database", "NoSQL"],
"likes": "100"
}
>

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 NOR in MongoDB

Syntax

To query documents based on the NOT condition, you need to use $not keyword. Following is
the basic syntax of NOT −
>db.COLLECTION_NAME.find(
{
$not: [
{key1: value1}, {key2:value2}
]
}
)

Example

Assume we have inserted 3 documents in the collection empDetails as shown below −

db.empDetails.insertMany(
[
{
First_Name: "Radhika",
Last_Name: "Sharma",
Age: "26",
e_mail: "[email protected]",
phone: "9000012345"
},
{
First_Name: "Rachel",
Last_Name: "Christopher",
Age: "27",
e_mail: "[email protected]",
phone: "9000054321"
},
{
First_Name: "Fathima",
Last_Name: "Sheik",
Age: "24",
e_mail: "[email protected]",
phone: "9000054321"
}
]
)
Following example will retrieve the document(s) whose first name is not "Radhika" and last name
is not "Christopher"
> db.empDetails.find(
{

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 $nor:[
40
{"First_Name": "Radhika"},
{"Last_Name": "Christopher"}
]
}
).pretty()
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5dd631f270fb13eec3963bef"),
"First_Name" : "Fathima",
"Last_Name" : "Sheik",
"Age" : "24",
"e_mail" : "[email protected]",
"phone" : "9000054321"
}

NOT in MongoDB

Syntax

To query documents based on the NOT condition, you need to use $not keyword following is the
basic syntax of NOT −
>db.COLLECTION_NAME.find(
{
$NOT: [
{key1: value1}, {key2:value2}
]
}
).pretty()

Example

Following example will retrieve the document(s) whose age is not greater than 25
> db.empDetails.find( { "Age": { $not: { $gt: "25" } } } )
{
"_id" : ObjectId("5dd6636870fb13eec3963bf7"),
"First_Name" : "Fathima",
"Last_Name" : "Sheik",
"Age" : "24",
"e_mail" : "[email protected]",
"phone" : "9000054321"
}

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