Development Checklist
This version of the documentation is archived and no longer supported. View the current documentation to learn how to upgrade your version of MongoDB server.
The following checklist, along with the Operations Checklist, provides recommendations to help you avoid issues in your production MongoDB deployment.
Data Durability
Schema Design
Data in MongoDB has a dynamic schema. Collections do not enforce document structure. This facilitates iterative development and polymorphism. Nevertheless, collections often hold documents with highly homogeneous structures. See Data Modeling Concepts for more information.