Installation guide for MongoDB (macOS)
3 min readMay 19, 2018
MongoDB is a free and open-source document based database with the scalability and flexibility that you want with the querying and indexing that you need. I’ve been using this no-sql database for over the last 2 years and I am awestruck with the features it offers us:
- Stores data in flexible, JSON-like documents.
- Easily maps to the objects in your application code.
- A distributed database at its core, so high availability, horizontal scaling, and geographic distribution.
- Most importantly it’s free and open source and makes developers life easy with support to over 10+ languages.
In this blog I’ll help you to install MongoDB in your macOS in the most simplest way. I will be dividing the entire installation in 4 sections for anyone to understand it easily.
- Section 1:
- First download mongo db from mongo official website — https://www.mongodb.com/download-center?jmp=nav#community.
- Now let’s open the terminal and navigate to the downloads folder from the terminal — cd Downloads/
- Unzip the zar file which we’ve installed in the downloads folder — tar xzf mongodb-osx-x86_64–x.x.x.tgz (x is the version number)
- List the files in the folder — ls, and you’ll find a file named mongodb-osx-x86_64–x.x.x
- Move the unzipped file to usr/local/mongodb — sudo mv mongodb-osx-x86_64–x.x.x /usr/local/mongodb (It will prompt for your user name and password of your system)
2. Section 2:
- We move towards the creation of mongoDB directory. Again lets move back to the terminal and type in — sudo mkdir -p /data/db (It will prompt for your user name and password of your system)
- Type in — sudo chown sircarsmac/data/db (sircarsmac is my Mac name & the chown command changes ownership of files and directories in a Linux filesystem. To know your mac name you can type in — whoami in the terminal)
3. Section 3:
- We are almost ready to go, except for setting the MongoDB path, so that we can directly run the mongo instance and the console from the terminal itself.
- Type in — $cd (you’ll be redireted to the root directory of your system).
- Type in open .bash_profile (If not created then type in $ touch .bash_profile).
- Paste this lines: export MONGO_PATH=/usr/local/mongodb and export PATH=$PATH:$MONGO_PATH/bin and save the file.
export MONGO_PATH=/usr/local/mongodb
export PATH=$PATH:$MONGO_PATH/bin- Bingo we are done!!
4. Section 4:
- Now for the final phase we’ ll check whether eveything has been installed in a proper way.
- Open 2 terminals in one of them type in — mongod (It will start the mongo instance)
- In the other type in mongo and hit enter, mongo console starts up (by default the port is 27017)
