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