Working with MongoDB
MongoDB is a free and open source NoSQL database developed by MongoDB Inc.
Some of the key strengths of MongoDB can be outlined as follows:
- It is a document-based database
- It is cross-platform
- It runs on a single server as well as on distributed architectures
- It can be used for desktop and web applications
- It uses JSON objects to store data
- It can use JavaScript map-reduce for information processing at the server side
- It processes large volumes of data
- It aggregates calculations
- It supports fields, range queries, and regular expression searches
- It is a native replication
Installing MongoDB
Assuming we are using the fresh Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) installation, the following steps outline how we can setup MongoDB:
- We will install MongoDB using the following console command:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y mongodb
- To further check that MongoDB is successfully installed and running, we can execute the following command:
sudo systemctl status mongodb.service- This should give...
