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πŸ—’οΈ Get Started: MongoDB Flexible Document Data Model & Query Overview

Data Examples:

  • πŸ’° Financial industry: customer records, orders, inventory, trades, transactions, quotations
  • πŸ“ Geospatial coordinates, product details and pricing
  • πŸ“ˆ Time series measurements, sensor readings, click-streams, social feeds, text descriptions
  • πŸ” Retrieve approximate nearest neighbors between vectors (for machine learning)
  • πŸ“Š Retrieving specific records, updating data, sophisticated aggregations, transformations for analysis


MongoDB Flexible Document Data Model:

  • 🌟 Ideal for innovation, objects in code, intuitive and easy to use
  • πŸ†• Supports new data types and application features


MongoDB Query API:

  • πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Intuitive way to handle complex data workloads
  • πŸ”  Handle any data structure, support any data type (key-value, graph, geospatial, time series, objects)
  • πŸ” Query arrays, nested documents
  • πŸ” Support transactional, search, and analytical queries
  • πŸ” Full-text search, analyzing data


Optimize Queries with Many Index Types:

  • πŸ” Generate queries, build aggregation pipelines
  • 🌍 Query geospatial data easily
  • πŸ”— Join and blend multiple collections
  • πŸ”§ Aggregation pipeline to build complex transformations


Full-Text Search:

  • πŸ” No need for additional infrastructure


Atlas Data Federation:

  • πŸ”„ Query across databases


Change Streams:

  • πŸ”„ Real-time, event-driven triggers from database changes


Financial Industry Use Case:

  • 🎯 AccuHit: Leveraging proprietary data to enhance customer lifetime value
  • πŸ”„ Transformation and MarTech: Need for Know Your Customer (KYC) and insights into customer preferences (transactions)


Challenges:

  • πŸ€Ήβ€β™€οΈ Diverse and flexible data requirements
  • πŸ†• Add fields or label consumers
  • πŸ“ˆ Growing data volume, more maintenance workload


Solution:

  • 🌩️ MongoDB Atlas: Cloud-native document database, NoSQL, multi-cloud, secure
  • πŸ”§ Flexible to adjust and expand database structure
  • πŸ“Š Customize fields


Security:

  • πŸ”’ Data encryption, identity authentication, access control
  • πŸ”’ Secure during transmission, prevent unauthorized access
  • πŸ” Built-in monitoring, system alerts (suspicious activities, anomalies, potential risks)
  • πŸ’Ύ Restore backup data (keep reputation, business operations)



Reference:

AccuHit Introduces MongoDB Atlas to Drive Transformation and Enhance Global Competitiveness in the MarTech Industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ks8R-SNFTQ
https://www.mongodb.com/customers/accuhit


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Danny Chan, specialty of FSI and Serverless

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Kenny Chan, specialty of FSI and Machine Learning

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