Start the mongodb daemon by running C:\mongodb\bin\mongod.exe in the Command Prompt. However, other locations can be specified using the -dbpath parameter. Additionally, you may find MongoDB in the add/remove programs menu.Ĭreate the directory where MongoDB will store it’s files. For example, C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.2.
However, based on settings on your machine Mongo may be installed other places.
Note: unless you specify a custom directory Mongo is most likely installed in the C:\mongodb directory**. Double click the file and follow the prompts to install Mongo. Installing and Running MongoDB on a Windows Machineĭownload the MongoDB installer file from the downloads section of the MongoDB website.įind the dowloaded. You should have a general familiarity with the Windows command prompt. This is different than SQL databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL, where fields correspond to columns in a table and individual records correspond to rows. Documents can have some fields/keys and not others, which makes Mongo extremely flexible. Values in documents can be looked up by their field’s key. In MongoDB, records are documents which behave a lot like JSON objects in JavaScript. MongoDB is a document database which belongs to a family of databases called NoSQL - not only SQL. Installing MongoDB on Windows What’s MongoDB?
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