How to Install MongoDB 3.0 on CentOS/RHEL & Fedora
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MongoDB has released new stable version 3.0 with lots of major enhancements. This tutorial will help you to install MongoDB 3.0.X on CentOS , RHEL and Fedora Systems.
Key Features of This Release:-
- Introduces a pluggable storage engine API that allows third parties to develop storage engines
- Introduces support for the WiredTiger storage engine.
- Increased more consistency on updating and inserting data
- The MMAPv1 storage engine adds support for collection-level locking
- In MongoDB 3.0, replica sets can have up to 50 members.
- Various enhancements for clusters.
- Read more…
Step 1: Add MongoDB Yum Repository
Add following content in yum repository configuration file /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb.repo as per your required MongoDB version and system architecture. For this article we are using MongoDB 3.0 repository.
For MongoDB 3.0.X
For 64bit Systems:
[MongoDB] name=MongoDB Repository baseurl=http://repo.mongodb.org/yum/redhat/$releasever/mongodb-org/3.0/x86_64/ gpgcheck=0 enabled=1
For MongoDB 2.6.X
For 64bit Systems:
[MongoDB] name=MongoDB Repository baseurl=http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/redhat/os/x86_64/ gpgcheck=0 enabled=1
For 32bit Systems:
[MongoDB] name=MongoDB Repository baseurl=http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/redhat/os/i686/ gpgcheck=0 enabled=1
Step 2: Install MongoDB
Lets use yum package manager to install mongodb-org package, it will automatically install all its dependencies. To install any specific revision of mongodb specify package name with version like mongodb-org-3.0.0. Following command will install latest stable version available.
# yum install mongodb-org
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Dependencies Resolved
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Installing:
mongodb-org x86_64 3.0.0-1.el7 MongoDB 4.5 k
Installing for dependencies:
mongodb-org-mongos x86_64 3.0.0-1.el7 MongoDB 3.8 M
mongodb-org-server x86_64 3.0.0-1.el7 MongoDB 8.1 M
mongodb-org-shell x86_64 3.0.0-1.el7 MongoDB 4.0 M
mongodb-org-tools x86_64 3.0.0-1.el7 MongoDB 31 M
Transaction Summary
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Install 1 Package (+4 Dependent packages)
Total download size: 47 M
Installed size: 147 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
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Step 3: Start MongoDB
Package mongodb-org-server provided MongoDB init script, Use that script to start service.
# /etc/init.d/mongod restart
Configure MongoDB to auto start on system boot.
# chkconfig mongod on
Step 4: Check MongoDB Version and Test Setup
Use following command to check installed mongodb version
[root@tecadmin ~]# mongo --version MongoDB shell version: 3.0.0
Connect MongoDB using command line and execute some test commands for checking proper working.
[root@tecadmin ~]# mongo
> use mydb;
> db.test.save( { a: 1 } )
> db.test.find()
{ "_id" : ObjectId("54fc2a4c71b56443ced99ba2"), "a" : 1 }
