Installing MongoDB in Windows OS

MongoDB is a cross-platform document-oriented database which stores data in JSON structure key pair value. It’s easy to integrate data.

But we are going to see about installing MongoDB in Windows OS.  MongoDB supports four Operating System Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Solaris. Also, you can download Current, Previous and Development release.MongoDB_Logo

https://www.mongodb.org/downloads

We are going to download Product Release (3.0.1), select “Windows 64-bit 2008 R2” version and download it.  Once you downloaded the MongoDB version run it and follow the steps.

After you installed the MongoDB in Windows OS, create data\db folder in folder where you installed MongoDB. For Example if you are installed MongoDB in  d:\MongoDB then create folder d:\MongoDB\data\db where data directory store all the data or you can also set alternative path for your data where to store.

d:\mongodb\bin\mongod.exe --dbpath e:\mongodb\data

Once the all setup is done, you can run below command in terminal.

MongoDB-Command

To start the MongoDB service run the command

MongoDB-mongo-start

Once the command is executed you can able to see the service running.

MongoDB-mongo-startedOpen another terminal to run mongo command

MongoDB-mongo-readyNow enter the simple command which show the database.

MongoDB-db-command

 

That’s all if you are still having issue installing the MongoDB in Windows, you can refer the url.

http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows/