In an effort to improve how MongoDB supplies its data to external applications, MongoDB keeper 10gen has extended the open source data store's query language, providing developers with more ...

MongoDB, like most NoSQL data storage software, has been criticized for offering only simple methods of retrieving data, compared to the rich set of commands SQL databases provide.

Then, to start MongoDB, navigate to the folder where MongoDB is installed and execute the mongod command in the command prompt window. That should start MongoDB at port 27017 by default.