This document provides an overview and introduction to using MongoDB with Perl. It discusses how MongoDB is a document-oriented database for storing JSON objects, and how the four basic CRUD operations (create, read, update, delete) work. It also introduces the MongoDB driver for Perl and provides examples for connecting to MongoDB and performing queries, inserts, updates and deletes from Perl code. The document concludes with suggesting some coding exercises to get hands-on experience with MongoDB and Perl.