Starting MONGODB - NoSQL

I heard about MongoDB from a friend and wanted to try out open source database.

Installing Mongo DB

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows/

I am installing MongoDB on windows 7. I have downloaded windows version from Mogodb website and unpacked msi.

• move bin folder to C:\MogoDB\
• create a directory for data - c:\data\db
• Setting data path
• c:\mongodb\bin\mongod.exe --dbpath c:\data\db

Starting MongoDB service

Open a command prompt

C:\MongoDB\Bin\Mongod.exe

Waiting for connections on port 27017 means MongoDB service is successfully started.

Open another command Prompt to connect to Mongo Database

Type

C:\mongodb\bin\Mongo.exe

You will see the error that cannot find the file mongorc.js

So you tell the shell to ignore looking for .mongorc.js

C:\MongoDB\Bin\Mongo.exe --norc --shell

Now you are successfully connected to database.

type 

db

it will return test, connecting to test database

use mydb

show collections

Generate test data in a loop

Read inserted data

It was fun to play with MongoDB. More posts will be coming soon...