TweetTwitter has been changing their API and features so quickly that even planning out a structure to store tweets can be quite difficult. Luckily (compared to other, relational DB’s) MongoDB makes that much less of a problem with its schema-less documents. To start things off let’s a get a few prerequisites checked off our list … [...]
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TweetAs the interest in MongoDB heats up in the devlopement comunity you might be asking yourself … “I’m no DBA, I don’t want to maintian my own server … do any web hosts offer MongoDB?” The anwser generally is no, however there are a few smaller start up that are seeking to fill that void [...]
TweetIf you’ve ever needed to work with PHP’s MongoDB driver and large integers (which Twitter and Facebook use for id’s) you might have run into a problem … Derick Rethans documents this problem at length at his post here … [A] Facebook UserID … [uses] a “64-bit int datatype”. Unfortunately, the MongoDB PHP Driver only had support for 32-bit [...]
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