Chapter 1. Installing and Starting the Server

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Installing single node MongoDB

• Starting a single node instance using the command-line options

• Installing single node MongoDB with options from the config file

• Connecting to a single node in the Mongo shell with JavaScript

• Connecting to a single node from a Java client

• Connecting to a single node from a Python client

• Starting multiple instances as part of a replica set

• Connecting to the replica set in the shell to query and insert data

• Connecting to the replica set to query and insert data from a Java client

• Connecting to the replica set to query and insert data using a Python client

• Starting a simple sharded environment of two shards

• Connecting to a shard in the shell and performing operations