MongoDB - HVboom/HowTo-DigitalOcean GitHub Wiki

Description

Mongo (from "humongous") is a high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database. A common name in the "NOSQL" community.

:speech_balloon: copied from package description

• MongoDB.com

Setup MongoDB

• Follow the instruction to setup MongoDB:

  sudo pkg install mongodb36
  sudo sysrc mongod_enable =yes
  sudo service mongod start
  

• Adjust the configuration in /usr/local/etc/mongodb.conf to setup dedicated directories and another port (optional step)

  ...
  # Where and how to store data.
  storage:
    dbPath: /var/db/mongodb
    directoryPerDB: true
    journal:
      enabled: true
  #  engine:
  #  mmapv1:
    wiredTiger:
      engineConfig:
        directoryForIndexes: true
  ...
  # network interfaces
  net:
    port: 9000
  ...
  

• Test the installation by executing sudo mongo or sudo mongo --port 9000, if you have adjusted the port