About

The Little MongoDB Book is a free book introducing MongoDB.

The book was written shortly after the creation of the MongoDB interactive tutorial. As such, the two can be seen as complementary.

The book was written by Karl Seguin, with Perry Neal's assistance.

If you liked this book, maybe you'll also like The Little Redis Book.

The book was updated for MongoDB 6.0 by Asya Kamsky

Translations

• Russian
• Chinese updated for 2.6
• Chinese
• Italian updated for 2.6
• Spanish
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Japanese updated for 2.6
• Japanese Version 1 - Version 2
• German
• Burmese

License

The book is freely distributed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license.

Formats

The book is written in Markdown and converted to PDF using Pandoc.

The TeX template makes use of Lena Herrmann's JavaScript highlighter.

Kindle and ePub format provided using Pandoc.

Generating books

Packages listed below are for Ubuntu. If you use another OS or distribution names would be similar.

PDF

Dependencies

Packages:

• pandoc
• texlive-xetex
• texlive-latex-extra
• texlive-latex-recommended

You should have Microsoft fonts installed too. But you could change fonts in common/pdf-template.tex file if you want.

Building

Run make en/mongodb.pdf.

ePub

Dependencies

Packages:

• pandoc

Building

Run make en/mongodb.epub.

Mobi

Dependencies

Packages:

• pandoc

You should have KindleGen installed too.

Building

Run make en/mongodb.mobi.

Title Image

A PSD of the title image is included. The font used is Comfortaa.