Introducing MongoDB

This chapter gives you a brief overview of MongoDB, including answering such questions as what is MongoDB?, why use it?, and what are its benefits? It then covers installing the MongoDB Community Edition (free version) on a Windows server and on Linux. You will learn the installation differences between RPM based Linux distributions (Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS) and Deb based (Debian, Ubuntu). There is also a brief summary of how to install directly from source.

The topics that we will learn in this chapter are:

• Overview of MongoDB
• Installing MongoDB
• Installing MongoDB on Linux