Managed MongoDB® Databases - Concepts

Important

Managed MongoDB® is currently in private beta. Click here to join the waiting list.

Block Storage Legacy

Block Storage Legacy is a volume type that is decoupled from your compute resources. You can increase your storage space to up to 10 TB without changing your node type.

Block Storage Low Latency

Block Storage Low Latency is a storage type similar to Block Storage Legacy that provides lower latency and high resiliency through 5k IOPS. You can increase your volume size to up to 10 TB.

Refer to the Block Storage Low Latency documentation section to learn more about this volume type.

Note

Block Low Latency volumes are only available with new-generation node types and in the PAR and AMS regions.

Database Instance

A Database Instance is made up of multiple (at least 1) dedicated compute nodes, and is running a single Database Engine. Exactly one database engine is running on each node.

A Snapshot is a consistent, instantaneous copy of the Block Storage volume of your Database Instance at a certain point in time. They are designed to recover your data in case of failure or accidental alterations of the data by a user. They allow you to quickly create a new Instance from a previous state of your database, regardless of the size of the volume. Snapshots can only be stored in the same location as the original data.

Document database

Document databases enable users to store and retrieve data in a document format, such as json. Compared to traditional relational databases where data is stored in a table-like format, document-type storage supports storing multiple nested keys and values in each document key.

Endpoint

A point of connection to a database. The endpoint is associated with an IPv4 address and a port, and determines whether the endpoint is read-write or not.

Engine

A database engine is the software component that stores and retrieves your data from a database. Currently, MongoDB® 7.0.11 and 7.0.12 are available.

Logs

Logs can contain useful information for debugging or to know more about the behavior and activity of your databases.

Managed Database

Compared to traditional database management, which requires customers to provision their infrastructure and resources to manage their databases, managed databases offer the user access to a Database Instance without setting up the hardware or configuring the software.

Region and Availability Zone

A region is a geographical area, such as France (Paris: fr-par) or the Netherlands (Amsterdam: nl-ams), in which Scaleway products and resources are located. It can contain multiple Availability Zones.

An Availability Zone refers to the geographical location within a region, such as waw-1 (Warsaw, Poland), in which your Scaleway resource will be created. The latency between multiple AZs of the same region is low, as they have a common network layer.

For an extensive list of which regions and AZ a resource is available in, refer to our Product availability guide.

Requirements

During the MongoDB® Private Beta, only the France region is available.

Replica-set 1-node

An Instance of MongoDB® that runs as a single server and does not provide redundancy or high availability.

Replica-set 3-nodes

A group of 3 MongoDB® servers (1 primary and 2 standby nodes) that maintain the same data set. Replica sets provide redundancy and high availability and are the basis for all production deployments. If the main node fails for any reason, one of the remaining standby nodes is assigned and can take over requests, reducing downtime.