Getting started

In the following you get a short introduction to the Mongo Management Studio and will become familiar with the most important functions. The local version serves as the basis. In addition, we assume that you have access to a Mongo database. We use the collection zipcode as a template for our examples.

Installation

• Download the for your system required version of Mongo Management Studio
• Run the setup routine
• Start the application

Setting the English language

• Click the gear icon next to the button "Connect"
• It will open the application settings
• In the first selection box, select "English" as language

Connect

• Click on the button "Connect"
• Enter in the field "Server Connection" the connection data for your Mongo database (for example localhost)
• Click "Save and connect"

Create a demo database

• Click with the right mouse button on the name of the Mongo server
• Select "Add database" in the popup menu
• Enter the database name "demo" and save it

Import of the zipcode collection

• Download the collection zipcode (http://media.mongodb.org/zips.json)
• Click with the right mouse button on the demo database and select Import documents
• Insert "zipcode" as name of the destination collection
• Drag the "zips.json" file in the field for the file upload
• Click the "Import"-button

Querying data

• Click in the database "demo" on the collection "zipcode"
• Switch to table view
• Search for the city of CHESTER. For this enter following query in the search window

city: 'CHESTER'

• Run the query by clicking on the "Run"-button or by the keyboard shortcut CMD + ENTER (MAC) or CTRL + ENTER (Windows / Linux)
• Sort the results by the column "pop" (population)

Edit a document

• Select a document and click the icon for "Edit document"
• Change the field "city" to "CHESTER123"
• Click "Save"

Create a document

• Click the button "Add document"
• Input the following record:

{city: 'Demo123city',pop: 999}

• Click "Save"

Querying with regex

• Search for all the cities containing 123

city: /123/

Deleting a document

• Click on the icon for "Delete document(s)" for the document with the city "Demo123city"
• Confirm the deletion security's query with Yes

Querying with aggregation framework

• Select "A" (aggregation) in the toolbar for an aggregation Framework query
• Enter the following query in the search window

{
	$group: {
		_id : "$state",
    	totalPop : { $sum : "$pop" } 
	} 
},
{ 
	$match: {
		totalPop : { $gte : 10000000 } 
	} 
} 

• You get a result of all U.S. states with more than 10 million inhabitants

Querying via console mode

• Select "C" (console) in the toolbar for the console mode
• Enter the following query in the search window

db.zipcode.stats()

• You get the statistics of the collection zipcode as result
• Switch to the text view to see all the data at once

Copy a collection

• Select in the toolbar the button "Collection" and then "Copy"
• Select "Copy collection within the database" 
• Enter "zipcode_copy" as name of the new collection
• Click "Copy"