MongoDB Package Components
MongoDB 5.0 is end of life as of October 2024. This version of the documentation is no longer
supported. To upgrade your 5.0 deployment, see the MongoDB 6.0 upgrade procedures.
Core Processes
The core components in the MongoDB package are:
the core database process | |
the controller and query router for sharded clusters | |
the interactive shell |
Windows Services
The mongod.exe and mongos.exe describe the
options available for configuring MongoDB when running as a Windows
Service. The mongod.exe and mongos.exe binaries
provide a superset of the mongod and mongos
options.
Security Tools
mongoldap and mongokerberos provide a
method for validating a system's LDAP or Kerberos configuration
respectively, and for testing that the authentication process for each
succeeds for a given username.
MongoDB Compass
New in version 3.6: MongoDB is packaged with an install_compass script, which
is a platform-specific installer for
MongoDB Compass Community Edition.