MongoDB Recipes: With Data Modeling and Query Building Strategies

© 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 ...