MongoDB is supported on all major platforms such as Windows, Linux, and OS X platforms.
The details for installing MongoDB can be found on their official website at https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/installation/. Note that we will be using the MongoDB Community Edition.
For our exercise, we will re-use the Linux CentOS environment from our Cloudera Hadoop Distribution VM.
The exercise is however not dependent on the platform on which you install MongoDB. Once the installation has been completed, you can execute the commands indicated in this chapter on any other supported platform. If you have access to a separate Linux machine, you can use that as well.
We will visit some of the common semantics of MongoDB and ...
