I want to show you just how easy it is to create a MongoDB database and then add a collection. For those who don’t know, a collection is a NoSQL term that refers to a group of MongoDB documents.

If you try to access a MongoDB that does not already exist, MongoDB will create it. The same happens if you try to write to a MongoDB collection (table) that does not exist. So, you do not need to ...

To create a database, click the Databases menu item, select Create a New Database, enter a name, click OK, and there you go. This is in keeping with MongoDB’s (sometimes dangerously) simple ...