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MongoDB is built on architecture of collection and document, whereas MySQL uses tables and rows. MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with schemas. **Key features of MongoDB:** - High performance - Rich query language - High availability - Horizontal scalability - Support for multiple storage engines **How to install MongoDB?** If we want install MongoDB directly using yum then we have to add MongoDB repository. It is recommended to follow the installation steps as a root user. Create a /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-3.4.repo vim /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-3.4.repo Add the following lines in the repository file \[mongodb-org-3.4\] \[mongodb-org-3.4\] name=MongoDB Repository baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/amazon/2013.03/mongodb-org/3.4/x86\_64/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-3.4.asc Use the following command to install MongoDB yum install -y mongodb-org **Start MongoDB** We can start mongoDB service by using following command: servicemongod start **Verify if MongoDB has started** You can verify if MongoDB process has started or not by checking the content of MongoDB log file which is located at /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log You should see following line in log file: \[initandlisten\] waiting for connections on port 27017 Where 27017 is default port. You can configure another port in configuration file located at /etc/mongod.conf If you want to start the MongoDB after every system reboot, you can use following command to do the same chkconfigmongod on **Stop MongoDB** You can use following command to stop MongoDB servicemongod stop **Restart MongoDB** You can use following command to restart MongoDB servicemongod restart By Default MongoDB stores its data file in /var/lib/mongo and its log file in /var/log/mongoDB. We can specify alternate path for data and log directory by modifying /etc/mongod.conf **Uninstall MongoDB** To remove MongoDB completely from the system, we have remove MongoDB application, related configuration files, logs files and any other directories containing data files. Follow the below steps to remove the MongoDB - **Stop MongoDB** Stop MongoDB by using following command servicemongod stop - **Remove Packages** Remove any MongoDB packages that we had previously installed sudo yum erase $(rpm -qa | grepmongodb-org) - **Remove Data Directories** Remove all data and log files sudorm -r /var/log/mongodb sudorm -r /var/lib/mongo - - - ### Similar Blog [![How to enable SMS alerts in Nagios using AWS SNS](https://blog.e-zest.com/hubfs/blog-files/nagios.png) How to enable SMS alerts in Nagios using AWS SNS Nagios is a powerful management and monitoring system. It helps in identifying the IT infrastructure problems. It also helps in ... By Anagha Thorat Feb 06, 2019](https://blog.e-zest.com/how-to-enable-sms-alerts-in-nagios-using-aws-sns) [![Installation of SVN](https://blog.e-zest.com/hubfs/Svn%201.png) Installation of SVN Subversion is software which help developers to work together and to maintain complete work history. Developers can modify, add ... 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