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Welcome to MongoDB!

Components

• mongod - The database server.
• mongos - Sharding router.

Download MongoDB

• https://www.mongodb.com/try/download/community
• Using homebrew brew tap mongodb/brew
• Using docker image docker pull mongodb/mongodb-community-server

Download the MongoDB Shell

• https://www.mongodb.com/try/download/shell
• Using homebrew brew install mongosh

Building

See Building MongoDB.

Running

For command line options invoke:

$ ./mongod --help

To run a single server database:

$ sudo mkdir -p /data/db
$ ./mongod
$
$ # The mongosh shell connects to localhost and test database by default:
$ ./mongosh
test> help

Installing Compass

You can install compass using the install_compass script packaged with MongoDB:

$ ./install_compass

This will download the appropriate MongoDB Compass package for your platform and install it.

Drivers

Client drivers for most programming languages are available at
https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/applications/drivers/.

Bug Reports

See https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/wiki/Submit-Bug-Reports.

Packaging

Packages are created dynamically by the buildscripts/packager.py script.
This will generate RPM and Debian packages.

Learn MongoDB

• Documentation - https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/
• Developer Center - https://www.mongodb.com/developer/
• MongoDB University - https://learn.mongodb.com

Cloud Hosted MongoDB

https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas

Forums

• https://mongodb.com/community/forums/

Technical questions about using MongoDB.

• https://mongodb.com/community/forums/c/server-dev

Technical questions about building and developing MongoDB.

LICENSE

MongoDB is free and the source is available. Versions released prior to October 16, 2018 are
published under the AGPL. All versions released after October 16, 2018, including patch fixes for
prior versions, are published under the
Server Side Public License (SSPL) v1. See individual files for details
which will specify the license applicable to each file. Files subject to the SSPL will be noted in
their headers.