Basic Server Side Scripting in MongoDB

There might be times that you need to execute MongoDB commands via command line. One of the obvious reason for this is latency -- unlike hitting the MongoDB server across the network, executing the commands via shell is way very fast, specially if you are retrieving/processing huge amount of data.

Fortunately, MongoDB supports Server Side scripting, using JavaScript as programming language. It is as easy as creating a .js file in your server. In this tutorial, lets create a create_record.js file that will do the following tasks:

• Connect to local MongoDB server
• Create a database with name db1
• Create a collection named "greetings"
• Create a new record with the property "message" and value of "Hello World"
• Print a status message

TO execute the file:

This will connect to localhost, in port 27017. Selecting the database "db1", then executing the create_record.js file.

That is how simple how to execute a JavaScript file in the server-side!

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