Installing MongoDB and php driver in Ubuntu 10.10

MongoDB is a NoSQL (“not only sql”), a non-relational, distributed, open-source, horizontal scalable and document-oriented database written in the C++. It doesn’t have transactions, ACID compliance, joins, foreign keys, or many of the other features belonging to relational database management system (RDBMS). The database is document-oriented so it manages collections of JSON-like documents.

One of the most important feature is than MongoDB scaling very well.

Installation.

• Step 1. Adding the ubuntu repository:

  sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10

  add at the end of the /etc/apt/sources.list file:

  deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen

• Step 2. Installing mongodb

   sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install mongodb-10gen

• Step 3. Verifying installation:

  mongo --version

  MongoDB shell version: 1.8.1

• Step 3. Now, we will installing the PHP driver:

  sudo aptitude install php5-dev php5-cli php-pear && sudo pecl install mongo

  add the dynamic library mongo.so at the end of the php.ini (/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini) file:

  extension=mongo.so

• Step 4. Restart apache and verify if all is ok running the phpinfo() function:

  sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

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