September 2011
Intermediate to advanced
138 pages
1h 44m
English
Content preview from MongoDB and PythonBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Installing MongoDB
For the purposes of development, it is recommended to run a MongoDB server on your local machine. This will permit you to iterate quickly and try new things without fear of destroying a production database. Additionally, you will be able to develop with MongoDB even without an Internet connection.
Depending on your operating system, you may have multiple options for how to install MongoDB locally.
Most modern UNIX-like systems will have a version of MongoDB available in their package management system. This includes FreeBSD, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS and ArchLinux. Installing one of these packages is likely the most convenient approach, although the version of MongoDB provided by your packaging vendor may lag behind the latest release from 10gen. For local development, as long as you have the latest major release, you are probably fine.
10gen also provides their own MongoDB packages for many systems which they update very quickly on each release. These can be a little more work to get installed but ensure you are running the latest-and-greatest. After the initial setup, they are typically trivial to keep up-to-date. For a production deployment, where you likely want to be able to update to the most recent stable MongoDB version with a minimum of hassle, this option probably makes the most sense.
In addition to the system package versions of MongoDB, 10gen provide binary zip and tar archives. These are independent of your system package manager and are provided ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.