From Wikipedia
MongoDB (from "humongous") is a cross-platform document-oriented database system. Classified as a "NoSQL" database, MongoDB eschews the traditional table-based relational database structure in favor of JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas (MongoDB calls the format BSON), making the integration of data in certain types of applications easier and faster.
From MongoDB README
COMPONENTS
bin/mongod - The database process.
bin/mongos - Sharding controller.
bin/mongo - The database shell (uses interactive javascript).
UTILITIES
bin/mongodump - MongoDB dump tool - for backups, snapshots, etc..
bin/mongorestore - MongoDB restore a dump
bin/mongoexport - Export a single collection to test (JSON, CSV)
bin/mongoimport - Import from JSON or CSV
bin/mongofiles - Utility for putting and getting files from MongoDB GridFS
bin/mongostat - Show performance statistics
There is great & simple online tutorial as Online Shell at http://www.mongodb.org/
D:\Progs\MongoDB\mongodb-win32-x86_64-2.4.6\bin>mongo.exe -h
MongoDB shell version: 2.4.6
usage: D:\Progs\MongoDB\mongodb-win32-x86_64-2.4.6\bin\mongo.exe [options] [db address] [file names (ending in .js)]
db address can be:
foo foo database on local machine
192.169.0.5/foo foo database on 192.168.0.5 machine
192.169.0.5:9999/foo foo database on 192.168.0.5 machine on port 9999
options:
--shell run the shell after executing files
--nodb don't connect to mongod on startup - no
'db address' arg expected
--norc will not run the ".mongorc.js" file on
start up
--quiet be less chatty
--port arg port to connect to
--host arg server to connect to
--eval arg evaluate javascript
-u [ --username ] arg username for authentication
-p [ --password ] arg password for authentication
--authenticationDatabase arg user source (defaults to dbname)
--authenticationMechanism arg (=MONGODB-CR)
authentication mechanism
-h [ --help ] show this usage information
--version show version information
--verbose increase verbosity
--ipv6 enable IPv6 support (disabled by
default)
file names: a list of files to run. files have to end in .js and will exit after unless --shell is specified