I wonder what "test" is. There is no database named test there.
This is just the default database that the mongo shell uses when it connects, unless you insert something, it is empty. You can do this with any database in fact, test is just the default.
The first command will not work because you did not prefix it with db, as such it attempts to find "isikota" as a variable (javascript) and fails to find it. Similarly your next attempt does the same with a non-existent "test" variable.
Finally, this command is the right form (prefixed with db):
db.isikota.tablebusiness.ensureIndex({"LatitudeLongitude" : "2d"})
But, you did not change database (with use <database name>
) or at least you did not mention trying to at least. What this is going to do is create a 2d (geoindex) index on a "LatitudeLongitude" field on a collection named "isikota.tablebusiness" in the test database (db always refers to the database you are currently using). Even if this collection does not exist, the index will be created (this is just an insert into the system.indexes namespace) and hence the command succeeds. You just won't see anything else, because I believe you are still operating on the test database.
Assuming your data is actually in a database called "isikota" and that "tablebusiness" is your collection, what you actually want to do is this:
use isikota;
db.tablebusiness.ensureIndex({"LatitudeLongitude" : "2d"});
That will create the index on the "LatitudeLongitude" field in a collection named "tablebusiness" in a database named "isikota".
Some thoughts....
Typically one does not want to store pieces of tightly interrelated information in different systems. The chances of things getting out of sync is significant and now instead of one problem on your hands you have two. One thing you can do with Mongo though is use it to pipeline your data in or data out. My preference is to keep everything in PostgreSQL to the extent this is possible. However, I would note that doing so really requires expert knowledge of PostgreSQL programming and is not for shops unwilling to dedicate to using advanced features. I see a somewhat different set of options than you do. Since my preference is not something I see listed I will give it to you.
You can probably separate your metadata into common data, data required for classes, and document data. In this regard you would have a general catalog table with the basic common information plus one table per class. In this table you would have an hstore, json, or xml field which would store the rest of the data along with columns where you are storing data that must be constrained significantly. This would reduce what you need to put in these tables per class, but would allow you to leverage constraints however you like. The three options have different issues and are worth considering separately:
hstore is relatively limited but also used by a lot of people. It isn't extremely new but it only is a key/value store, and is incapable of nested data structures, unlike json and xml.
json is quite new and doesn't really do a lot right now. This doesn't mean you can't do a lot with it, but you aren't going to do a lot out of the box. If you do you can expect to do a significant amount of programming, probably in plv8js or, if you want to stick with older environments, plperlu or plpython. json
is better supported in 9.3 though at least in current development snapshots, so when that version is released things will get better.
xml is the best supported of the three, with the most features, and the longest support history. Then again, it is XML.....
However if you do decide to go with Mongo and PostgreSQL together, note that PostgreSQL supports 2 phase commit meaning you can run the write operations, then issue PREPARE TRANSACTION
and if this succeeds do your atomic writes in Mongo. If that succeeds you can then COMMIT
in PostgreSQL.
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The general approach was to fabricate an ObjectID with the time stamp prefix of what I wanted. The general query looked like
The corresponding mongoexport cmd for a json output file was