A MongoDB White Paper April 2014 MongoDB Operations Best Practices MongoDB 2.6 MONGODB OPERATIONS BEST PRACTICES 1 Roles and Responsibilities 1 Data Architect 2 Database Administrator (DBA) 2 System Administrator (sysadmin) 2 Application Developer 2 Network Administrator 2 I. PREPARING FOR A MONGODB DEPLOYMENT 3 Schema Design 3 Document Size 3 Data Lifecycle Management 4 Indexing 5 Working Sets 7