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Entering MongoDB
A very popular NoSQL database that is being used more and more in the NoSQL commu-
nity is MongoDB. MongoDB is a document-oriented database system that uses JSON-like
documents with dynamic schemas. For more information on MongoDB, see ht-
tp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MongoDB . MongoDB can be found at http://www.mongodb.org/
and the installation instructions for Windows can be found at http://docs.mongodb.org/
manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-windows . MongoDB is written in C++, is open source,
uses the Apache open source license that most Apache Foundation products run under, and
is cross-platform.
To install MongoDB on Windows, download the installation file, which will install it today
at C:\Program Files\MongoDB 2.6 Standard . To start the installation, open a
command prompt, change the directory to C:\Program Files\MongoDB 2.6
Standard\bin , create the database directory using md \data\db , and start the data-
base via mongod.exe .
We can check on the database by running many MongoDB tools listed at ht-
tp://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/tools/administration-interfaces/ or ht-
tp://stackoverflow.com/questions/3310242/do-any-visual-tools-exist-for-mongodb-for-win-
dows . One of the many tools is UMongo, which is cross-platform and built in Java; for
more information see http://edgytech.com/umongo/ . We can see the MyPublisher sub-
scription tables in the publish/subscribe example.