The development team behind the MongoDB database is preparing for the release of the next major release 8.0 – Release Candidate 16 is currently available. The next major version promises developers improvements in performance, reliability, and scalability. MongoDB 8.0 aims to achieve more flexible scaling through new sharding options – including config shards.
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Greater scalability and greater cost control
In addition to general performance improvements, the innovations announced for the next major version are aimed at making MongoDB even more resilient and fail-safe as a development environment for database applications. To this end, the MongoDB team has planned various changes to sharding that will contribute to greater scalability.
For example, from version 8.0, developers can use config shards. These are special versions of the configuration server that, in addition to the usual cluster metadata, also store application data. Config shards help reduce the number of nodes required, which also reduces costs. However, for applications that place high demands on availability and reliability, the MongoDB team still recommends using dedicated configuration servers.
In addition to faster resharding and shard rebalancing, the database will also become faster in batch and time series processing as well as read/write access from the new version. A new command for batch writing processes, improvements to the memory allocation program tcmalloc and new compression methods for time series data should contribute to this.
From a high availability and resiliency perspective, MongoDB 8.0 also focuses on handling unexpected load peaks. To ensure that the database can respond quickly even in resource-constrained situations, various tuning options are provided to developers.
This includes the ability to set maximum time limits for queries and provide insight into queries to be able to reject any problematic query forms if necessary. In addition, MongoDB 8.0 promises generally optimized queue behavior for operations.
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