Location of the mongodb database on mac

Question

I am kind of new to mac as well as mongodb.

I have a weird doubt, accessing the database created using mongodb on mac?

I know, in windows there is a folder called c:\data\db, where my database files are stored.

How and where in mac, the database is stored.

I remember doing something like

sudo mkdir -p /data/db sudo chown `id -u` /data/db 

to create such a folder on mac, but I didn't find any database file in this folder, though i created a database.

Where are the database files saved on mac?

Any help would be really appreciated.

Answer 1

If MongoDB is installed on macOS via Homebrew, the default data directory depends on the type of processor in the system.

	Intel Processor	Apple M1 Processor
Data Directory	/usr/local/var/mongodb	/opt/homebrew/var/mongodb
Configuration file	/usr/local/etc/mongod.conf	/opt/homebrew/etc/mongod.conf
Log directory	/usr/local/var/log/mongodb	/opt/homebrew/var/log/mongodb

Run brew --prefix to see where Homebrew installed these files.

See the MongoDB "Install on macOS" documentation for additional details.

Answer 2

Thanks @Mark, I keep forgetting this again and again. After installing MongoDB with Homebrew:

• The databases are stored in the /usr/local/var/mongodb/ directory
• The mongod.conf file is here: /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf
• The mongo logs can be found at /usr/local/var/log/mongodb/
• The mongo binaries are here: /usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/[version]/bin