Database Reference
In-Depth Information
• Diagnostic tools
• File storage (GridFS) tools
Each file can be placed into one of the aforementioned categories. The core component
files are used to run the MongoDB server and start it. The files are also used to manage
the MongoDB server from the command-line interface or manage clustering tasks.
Using import and export tools, developers can create dump files from their database in
different formats such as BSON, JSON or CSV and restore them into another database
again. Certain tools are used to create or restore BSON files, and some tools are respons-
ible for generating and importing other common formats such as JSON or CSV.
MongoDB has many built-in diagnostic tools to manage and control the currently running
server. Finally, we can use GridFS tools to interact with filesystem and GridFS compon-
ents. In the next section, we will give you more details for each category and the pro-
cesses inside them.
