Installing MongoDB and friends
The MongoDB ecosystem is composed of different pieces of software, and I remember that when I was starting to play with it, there was some confusion. It is, in fact, quite straightforward as we will see. Let’s examine the following various components that we will be installing or using in the following part:
- MongoDB Community Edition – a free full-fledged version of MongoDB that runs on all major operating systems (Linux, Windows, or macOS) and it is what we are going to use to play around with data locally.
- MongoDB Compass – a graphical user interface (GUI) for managing, querying, aggregating, and analyzing MongoDB data in a visual environment. Compass is a mature and useful tool that we’ll be using throughout our initial querying and aggregation explorations.
- MongoDB Atlas – the database-as-a-service solution from MongoDB. To be honest, this is one of the main reasons MongoDB is a huge part of the FARM...
