
Navigate back to the download center at the MongoDB website and choose the Compass tab.

It is a graphical tool that makes working with the database easier. We’re currently working on providing the same experience in other regions. Compass in Mongodb is analogous to phpmyadmin for MySQL. Note: This course works best for learners who are based in the North America region. Instead of using tables, rows and columns, NoSQL document databases such as MongoDB use collections, documents and fields, represented with the well known JSON format. NoSQL databases sacrifice some relational databases characteristics, such as a well-defined structure and strict relations between entities, in order to achieve better and easier scaling and replication, to handle large quantities of data, while being more generally flexible, cheaper and easier to manage. Robo 3T gives you the ability to create databases, collections, add users, documents, execute one-time queries with auto-completion, and visualize results.

Robo 3T is a lightweight, open-source, shell centric, cross-platform graphical user interface tool for managing MongoDB workloads.

NoSQL is an alternative to traditional relational databases. Connecting to an Amazon DocumentDB Cluster from Robo 3T. In this Guided Project you will create a MongoDB database and collection to store blog posts, and optimize it using indexes, while having an overview of some of the basic commands, in order to learn the basics of NoSQL document databases structure, the MongoDB shell and the usage of the powerful MongoDB Compass GUI to manage, inspect and optimize a MongoDB database. MongoDB Compass: For work with MongoDB, you can use the official graphic client Compass.
