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PRACTICAL 4.2 MongoDB

MongoDB Atlas is a cloud database that runs on the cloud providers such as AWS, GCP,
and Azure. It enables users to host Database Clusters and connect to them remotely.

💡 The following instructions were correct at the time of writing. If there have been any
updates to the MongoDB Atlas website since then, do follow the new instructions
provided there.

1. MongoDB Atlas Sign Up


Sign-up for a free MongoDB Atlas account. Follow the instructions given in this
video to create a free cluster.
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2. Connecting to the MongoDB Atlas Cluster

2.1. Click the Connect button:

2.2. Under Connect to your application, click Drivers:

2.3. Connecting to your cluster


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Follow the instructions shown in the screenshot below***:

***Important: take note of the following details:


2.3.1. In step 1, for Driver, select “Python” and for Version, select “3.11
or later”

2.3.2. In step 2, install the driver in your venv.

2.3.3. In step 3, replace the password in the connection string as


instructed. This connection string will be used for connecting to
your cluster.
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3. Writing Code using PyMongo
Reference MongoDB University: Python Developer Path

3.1. Install the library in your venv


$ pip install python-dateutil

3.2. Create a centralised file for your MongoDB connection code


Create a Python file named pymongo_utils.py with the following lines of code.

from pymongo import MongoClient

# Replace with your connection string and password


CONNECTION_STRING = "<your connection string>"

class PyMongoUtils:

def __init__(self, uri=CONNECTION_STRING):


self.uri = uri

def get_database(self, database_name):


client = MongoClient(self.uri)
return client[database_name]

3.3. Write code to insert documents into your collection

3.4. In MongoDB Atlas, use Browse Collections to see the newly


inserted document
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3.5. Write code to query data

3.6. Write code to convert the list of dictionaries to a PySpark


DataFrame

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