MongoDB for Developers with Python Transcripts
Chapter: What is NoSQL?
Lecture: Introducing MongoDB
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Now that we've talked about what NoSQL is,
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where it came from and a little bit about document databases,
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let's move to focusing specifically on MongoDB.
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First off, I want to point out that MongoDB is open source
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so if we come down here, you can see we've got
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github.com/mongodb/mongo, there's actually all what are called drivers
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so like how do you access MongoDB from Python, or CSharp, or Java or whatever,
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and a bunch of other stuff out here on their github,
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but Mongo is the actual database server.
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So it's cool that it's open source, now there's a lot of things that are on github
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that are technically open source, but not really active,
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it's like oh that's been changed, four years ago,
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and it's got 50 pull requests that haven't been
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even addressed in the last six months.
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That's not good; that's not the case with Mongo, obviously,
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eleven thousand stars, three thousand forks,
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when was the last check in— it was three hours ago, okay?
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So that's really awesome, and they're fixing the build on 'Windos'
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so that must be a slightly different version of Windows,
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I'm just kidding, I'm sure they lost the w there
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but you know, it runs on the major platforms,
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Windows, Linux and MacOS, if we look over at the pull request
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you can see these are only a few days old,
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there's 1129 that are closed, so these are all really good signs
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for MongoDB's open source site,
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open source repository to be active and real,
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not just it's up here, but it's a really active thing
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with a huge company and hundreds of engineers working on it.
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If we look at what it's made of, it's basically a C++ app,
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there is a decent amount of Javascript
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and there as well as we'll see Javascript is fundamental
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in the raw query api and some other stuff.
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Now we can get the source code here, but that's not how we get MongoDB.
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So the way we get MongoDB is we go to mongodb.com,
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and we click download and it takes us here,
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so you can see there is the free community server version
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and if we come over here we could get the OS10 version with ssl
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we could download it just as a binary
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or we could install it with home brew, that's pretty cool.
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If we want to install it on Linux, let's pick something,
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let's say we want to install it on Ubuntu,
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okay, here is how you install it with aptitude, right
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so on Windows you just get an msi and install it directly that way.
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But notice, they all have ssl support, I believe there's a time
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when ssl support was actually an enterprise feature or like a paid feature,
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but thankfully that went away, and the community edition has this right here.
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So if you get a chance, I would recommend installing it
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especially on Linux from one of the package manager type things
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like here with apt, because then the underlying system will know
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that there's an update for your database server,
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not a feature on Windows, you just have to keep track.
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You can go and get the enterprise server which has an in memory version,
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an encrypted at rest version, and sort of
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advanced identity control features within it
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but if you just want a standard database without those things
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you don't care about say encryption at rest
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or integration with active directory or something like that,
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then the free version is totally good.
