Welcome to the MongoDB Docs

MongoDB Manual 3.4

Everything you need to know about the MongoDB server from the official reference manual.

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MongoDB Compass

Visually explore your data; run ad hoc queries in seconds; assess and optimize your query performance in Compass, the MongoDB GUI.

Data Explorer

Included in MongoDB Atlas, use Data Explorer to inspect the databases and collections in a MongoDB cluster.

MongoDB Atlas Live Migration

Use Atlas Live Migration to transfer data from a replica set hosted anywhere to an Atlas cluster.

mongomirror

Use mongomirror to migrate data from one MongoDB replica set to another.

mongoimport

Use mongoimport to load data from a JSON or csv file into a MongoDB cluster.

mongorestore

Use mongorestore to load data from a binary database dump into a MongoDB cluster.

MongoDB Stitch

MongoDB Stitch is a backend as a service that provides an HTTP API to MongoDB, integration with other services, and a declarative rules infrastructure which spans database and service actions.

MongoDB Atlas

Atlas provides MongoDB as a service from the people who build MongoDB.

MongoDB Cloud Manager

Cloud Manager is a hosted platform for managing MongoDB on the infrastructure of your choice.

MongoDB Ops Manager

Ops Manager is a comprehensive application that helps you manage MongoDB safely and reliably in your own data center.

Authentication

Role-Based Authorization

LDAP

SCRAM Sha-1

X509

Kerberos

Create Users

Grant Roles to Users

Create Custom Roles

Install MongoDB Community Edition

Follow this tutorial to install MongoDB Community Edition. The Community edition is open source and available under the AGPL license.

Install MongoDB Enterprise

Evaluate MongoDB Enterprise to explore advanced monitoring, security, analysis, and cluster management tools.

Upgrade Procedures

How to upgrade to the latest version of MongoDB.

High Availability / Disaster Recovery

MongoDB's solution for high availability and disaster recovery is replica sets.

Horizontal Scalability

MongoDB uses sharding to support applications that have both very large data sets and high throughput requirements.

MongoDB Ops Manager

On-premise cluster management including automated monitoring

MongoDB Cloud Manager

Hosted cluster management including automated monitoring on the infrastructure of your choice.

MongoDB Atlas

MongoDB as a service including automated monitoring.

MongoDB Ops Manager

On-premise cluster management including support for backup.

MongoDB Cloud Manager

Hosted cluster management including backup service on the infrastructure of your choice.

MongoDB Atlas

MongoDB as a service including hosted backup.

Flexible Schema

Data in MongoDB has a flexible schema.

Schema Design

The key consideration for the structure of your documents is the decision to embed or to use references.

Schema Validation

MongoDB provides the capability to validate documents during updates and insertions.