MongoDB comes with several very useful utilities for managing data. You can restore data from a MongoDB dump with the following command: mongorestore dump You can import data from a csv file with the following command: mongoimport --type csv --headerline weather_data.csv -d weather -c data

Here is a quick guide for installing MongoDb for developers. Download file curl http://downloads.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.4.7.tgz > mongodb.tgz Extract file tar -zxvf mongodb.tgz Move files to usr/local folder mv mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.4.7/ /usr/local Open your .bashrc file cd open