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MongoDB Cookbook

By : Amol Nayak
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MongoDB Cookbook

By: Amol Nayak

Overview of this book

<p>MongoDB is a high-performance and feature-rich NoSQL database that forms the backbone of numerous complex development systems. You will certainly find the MongoDB solution you are searching for in this book.</p> <p>Starting with how to initialize the server in three different modes with various configurations, you will then learn a variety of skills including the basics of advanced query operations and features in MongoDB and monitoring and backup using MMS. From there, you can delve into recipes on cloud deployment, integration with Hadoop, and improving developer productivity. By the end of this book, you will have a clear idea about how to design, develop, and deploy MongoDB.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
MongoDB Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing PyMongo


This recipe is about setting up PyMongo, which is the Python driver for MongoDB. In this recipe, we will demonstrate the installation of PyMongo on both the Windows and Linux platforms.

Getting ready

A simple single node is what we will need for the sanity testing of the driver, once the installation is complete. Refer to the Single node installation of MongoDB recipe in Chapter 1, Installing and Starting the MongoDB Server, to learn how to start the server. We will also require an Internet connection to download Python and PyMongo. Once these prerequisites are met, we are ready to begin.

The first step is to install Python on the computer if it is not already there. Visit http://www.python.org/getit/, download the latest version of Python for your platform, and install it. The steps for the installation Python are not covered in this recipe. However, before you proceed to the next section, Python should be available on the host operating system.

How to do it…

  1. We will first...