Introduction If you’re a developer beginning to learn MongoDB you’ll find that a lot of the training materials out there teach you about MongoDB through shell commands. Let’s say you’re working with Javascript or PHP, well these shell commands aren’t immediately applicable to what you’re doing. This can be a little discouraging to learn something … Continued
Introduction If you use MongoDB to store and manage your data, there will be many times when you need to update multiple documents in a collection at once. In the past, the only method available to accomplish this was the update() method– you would need to use the multi flag with this method to change … Continued
Introduction If you want to improve your query performance, it can be helpful to create indexes for your MongoDB collections. Indexes help make query requests more efficient because they store data in a way that makes it quick and easy to traverse. With the help of an index, MongoDB can locate documents that match your … Continued
“ Introduction MongoDB Compass Community provides users a quick and easy way to execute a MongoDB document aggregation. Aggregation in MongoDB Compass Community is a simple and easy, but sophisticated, program that provides users with multiple MongoDB Compass options, including how to analyze documents and visualize and explore schemas to understand the types, ranges and … Continued
Introduction When you need to delete a database in MongoDB, it’s wise to proceed with caution, since deletion is permanent. Fortunately, it’s easy to remove a MongoDB database in Python with the help of the PyMongo driver. In this article, we’ll explain how to drop a MongoDB database in Python using the drop_database() method. Prerequisites … Continued
Introduction When you need to delete a collection in MongoDB, it’s important to proceed with caution, because deleting is a permanent operation– the entire collection, and all of its documents, will be removed. Fortunately, it’s easy to delete collections in Python using the PyMongo driver. In this article, we’ll show two different methods that can … Continued
Introduction to insertMany() in PyMongo If you’re using MongoDB to store data, there will be times when you want to insert multiple documents into a collection at once. It’s easy to accomplish this task with Python when you use the collection.insert_many() method. This useful method is PyMongo’s version of the insertMany() method; both methods can … Continued
Introduction One beautiful benefit of having MongoDB with Python’s Pandas library is that it gives you the ability to export MongoDB documents in different formats. This includes being able to export to MongoDB CSV, export MongoDB JSON, and export MongoDB HTML. When you manage MongoDB documents PyMongo, exporting MongoDB documents Python is a task that … Continued
Introduction If you think MongoDB is just used for storing text data, you’re only scratching the surface of its capabilities. While it’s true that MongoDB is known for its fast and powerful text search, it can also be used to store other types of files such as images and even audio files. In this article, … Continued
Introduction In Part 1 of this article we accomplished the main substance of this tutorial which was how to install MongoDB on AWS Lightsail. We saw that it’s not terribly complicated to get a MongoDB server up and running but we never really verified it was working. We were able to start MongoDB on the … Continued
