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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 the GUI-based client, MongoVUE, for MongoDB


In this recipe, we will look at a GUI-based client for MongoDB. Throughout the book, we have used the Mongo shell to perform various operations we need. Its advantages are as follows:

  • It comes packaged with the MongoDB installation

  • Being lightweight, you need not worry about it taking up your system's resources

  • On servers where GUI-based interfaces are not present, the shell is the only option to connect, query, and administer the server instance

Having said this, if you are not on a server and want to connect to a database instance to query, view the plan of a query, administer, and so on, it is nice to have a GUI with these features to let you do things at a click of a button. As a developer, we always query our relational database with a GUI-based thick client; so why not do the same for MongoDB?

In this recipe, we will see how to install some features of a MongoDB client, MongoVUE. This client is only available on Windows machines. This...