How do I install mongodb on the beaglebone black

Question

Has anyone had any success running mongodb on the beaglebone black? do I have to install a different flavor of linux to get this to work or can I use angstrom.

Answer 1

MongoDB (as at 2.4) does not officially support ARM processors. You can watch/upvote SERVER-1811 in the issue tracker, however I wouldn't expect this to get much traction until there are 64-bit server-class ARM processors commonly available.

In general a 32-bit low power ARM processor with limited memory (512Mb RAM on the BeagleBone Black) is not a great fit for a memory-mapped database server like MongoDB. Due to the use of memory-mapped files, 32-bit versions of MongoDB are also limited to about 2GB of data and indexes .

There are some extremely old versions of MongoDB that have been hacked to work on ARM to some extent (eg: MongoDB 2.1.1-pre ), which is a very early development release of MongoDB 2.2. I wouldn't recommend this unless you're extremely desperate; likely you will spend far more time trying to get things working than writing productive code.

Better approaches would be to either:

• use a database which is designed for lightweight environments (eg. SQLite)
• use your BeagleBone to run a MongoDB client application rather than a server