We already have MongoDB up and runing for you. It will take a couple of seconds for it to fire up.
Once our MongoDB instance is up, you can type mongo
in the shell, and can start querying the database.
You will see a bunch of warnings in the shell. This is because we have not tuned our MongoDb instance for production deployment.
In the scope of this tutorial this is fine. Use cls
to clear the screen.
Mongo shell is a utility that allows you to connect to the database, query it, and perform admistrative actions. By default it connects to a local mongod instance on port 27017. You can also use it to connect to remote databses.
To make sure we're up and running we'll check the version.
Type version()
to get the mongo shell version.
Type db.version()
to get the database version.