Storing data in MongoDB

MongoDB, by the company with the same name (http://www.mongodb.org/), is the most popular database among the NoSQL databases. Let's look at some facts about MongoDB:

• MongoDB is an open source, distributed, document-oriented database; each data record is actually a document.
• A table is called a collection in MongoDB. Documents are stored in a JSON-like format called BSON.
• The most advanced driver from Dart to MongoDB is the pub package mongo_dart by Vadim Tsushko, Ted Sander, and Paul Evans. This recipe will show you how to create, read, update, and delete actions in a MongoDB database from a Dart app. You can see it in action in the using_mongodb project.

Getting ready

Install the latest production release for your system from http://www.mongodb.org/downloads. This is easy. However, if you need more details, refer to http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/installation/. Start the mongod server process (for example, from c:\mongodb\bin on Windows) before the Dart app. To...