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© Subhashini Chellappan and Dharanitharan Ganesan 2020

S. Chellappan, D. GanesanMongoDB Recipeshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4891-1_1

1. MongoDB Features and Installation

Subhashini Chellappan¹ and Dharanitharan Ganesan²

(1)

Bangalore, India

(2)

Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu, India

This chapter describes NoSQL databases, various features of MongoDB, and how to interact with MongoDB. We are going to focus on the following topics:

Why NoSQL?
What are NoSQL databases?
CAP theorem.
BASE approach.
Types of NoSQL databases.
MongoDB features.
MongoDB installation on Windows.
MongoDB installation on Linux.
MongoDB Compass installation on Windows.
Terms used in MongoDB.
Data types in MongoDB.
Database commands.

The Need for NoSQL Databases

There are several database challenges ...

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