MongoDB

Stage 1 · Lesson 5 of 8

An Atlas free cluster or a local server

Documents and your setup

You have two good ways to run MongoDB. Atlas is MongoDB's hosted cloud service, and its free tier (formerly called M0) gives you 0.5 GB of storage, a three-member and the in a few clicks. Its limits, such as operations per second and connections, are fine for learning.

Alternatively, install MongoDB , the free self-managed edition, on your computer, or run the official image in Docker. A local server has no quotas and works offline. Either way, install a current 8.x release and use the same version the course or project expects.

Common traprunning a standalone local server and later finding that transactions and need a replica set, which Atlas gives you from the start.

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Resources for this stage

Start with

  • CourseFree
    MongoDB University

    MongoDB

    Free: start with the introduction to MongoDB and Atlas setup lessons, which use the same sample data

Practise

  • Mongo Playground

    Paste a few documents and a query and run it in the browser, no install needed

Keep handy

  • MongoDB Shell (mongosh)

    The mongosh docs: connecting, running scripts and the shell helpers such as show and use

  • MongoDB Compass

    The Compass docs for the Schema, Explain Plan and Aggregations tabs you will use later

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