Cell/field level security

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All,
I am totally new with Mongo DB. We are looking at dB that will support field/cell level security out of the box. I saw pipeline and $redact function within Mongo to do this. I want to know if this is best practice and use case to do this. Thanks in advance.

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Hey Tony,

MongoDB supports Client Side Field Level Encryption. You can learn more about it here: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/core/security-client-side-encryption/

And see a guide on how to use it here:

https://www.mongodb.com/how-to/client-side-field-level-encryption-csfle-mongodb-node/ (for Node, but we have articles in other languages as well)

Hope that helps!

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Hi Ado,
Thanks for the info. what if we have a lot of fields that we want to redact. I wonder if performance will be an issue. Not sure if we use MongoDB the correct way for this use case.

thanks,
Tony

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Hey Tony,

From the GA announcement (Field Level Encryption is GA | MongoDB Blog) it mentions that the performance impact even on high read documents is fairly minimal.