Getting started with MongoDB – I

MongoDB or huMONGOus DB is a NoSQL database. You will push JSON data in MongoDB. The data is actually stored in a binary formatted JSON or BSON.

Getting started with MongoDB is pretty easy.

• Download the MongoDB zip from here.
• Extract it and add the bin folder to the path.
• Create a data folder in the MongoDB folder where all the data will be stored.
• You can start the MongoDB server from command prompt using the mongod –dbpath [path of data folder] command as shown here.
  

Start the mongoDB client from another command prompt window using mongo command like this.

In the next post, let’s create a database and add JSON data to it.