MongoDB installation in Windows 7 64 bit OS

PART-I : MongoDB Introduction
PART-II : Mongo DB Installation in Windows -7 64 bit OS

PART-I : MongoDB Introduction

MongoDB is an open-source document database that provides high performance, high availability, and automatic scaling.  


It is a NoSQL database


MongoDB  structure in favor of JSON(JavaScript Object Notation - http://www.json.org/)-like documents with dynamic schemas (MongoDB calls the format BSON- http://bsonspec.org/). 

Learn MongoDB online here: http://try.mongodb.org/

Keywords we can exchange from SQL to NoSQL

RDBMS	MongoDB
Database	Database
Table	Collection
Tuple/Row	Document
column	Field
Table Join	Embedded Documents
Primary Key	Primary Key (Default key _id provided by mongodb itself)

 PART-II : MongoDB Installation in Windows 7 64 bit OS

1. Download MongoDB from here

2. Create a folder mongodb in C drive (i.e., C:\mongodb)

3. Extract(unzip) the downloaded zip file to this folder(i.e., C:\mongodb\mongodb-win32-x86_64-2008plus-2.4.8)

4. Create a folder data either in C drive or D drive(Which ever drive you want to). C drive is preferable.(i.e, C:\data)

5. Create a sub folder db in data folder. i.e, (C:\data\db)

6. Open command prompt in Admin mode.

7. Navigate up to bin  from the mongodb installed folder(i.e., C:\mongodb\mongodb-win32-x86_64-2008plus-2.4.8\bin).

8 . Issue mongod.exe command (i.e., C:\mongodb\mongodb-win32-x86_64-2008plus-2.4.8\bin\mongod.exe)

 9. Open another command prompt in Admin mode 

 Issue mongo.exe command

NOTE:

1) test is a database which is default for MongoDB

2) Default port number for MongoDB is :   

     27017: the default port accessed by the various MongoDB drivers. 

     28017: a port that handles HTTP requests and provides some general monitoring.

 

Reference :  

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/introduction/

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/