Where does MongoDB store its documents?

Question

I have inserted and fetched data using MongoDB, in PHP. Is there an actual copy of this data in a document somewhere?

Answer 1

By default Mongo stores its data in the directory /data/db.

You can specify a different directory using the --dbpath option.

If you’re running Mongo on Windows then the directory will be C:\data\db, where C is the drive letter of the working directory in which Mongo was started. This is quite confusing, so on Windows I’d recommend that you always specify a data directory using --dbpath.