Location of the mongodb database on mac

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.

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

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

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

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

The default data directory for MongoDB is /data/db.

This can be overridden by a dbpath option specified on the command line or in a configuration file.

If you install MongoDB via a package manager such as Homebrew or MacPorts these installs typically create a default data directory other than /data/db and set the dbpath in a configuration file.

If a dbpath was provided to mongod on startup you can check the value in the mongo shell:

db.serverCmdLineOpts()

You would see a value like:

"parsed" : {
    "dbpath" : "/usr/local/data"
},

I had the same problem, with version 3.4.2

to run it (if you installed it with homebrew) run the process like this:

$ mongod --dbpath /usr/local/var/mongodb