<p><a href="https://redis.io/" style="border: none;"><img src="/source/static/img/logos/redis.jpg" width="100%" alt="Redis logo." class="technical-diagram" /></a></p>

</ul>

<h1>MongoDB</h1>

<p><a href="https://github.com/mongodb/mongo">MongoDB</a> is a document-oriented

<a href="/no-sql-datastore.html">NoSQL database</a> that is often used for

storing, querying and analyzing persistence data in Python applications.</p>

<p><a href="" style="border: none;"><img src="/source/static/img/logos/mongodb.jpg" width="100%" alt="MongoDB logo." class="technical-diagram" /></a></p>

<div class="well see-also">MongoDB is an implementation of the <a href="/no-sql-datastore.html">NoSQL database</a> concept. Learn more in the <a href="/data.html">data</a> chapter or view the <a href="/table-of-contents.html">table of contents</a> for all topics.</div>

<h3>Introduction to MongoDB tutorials</h3>

<ul>

<li>

<p><a href="https://realpython.com/blog/python/introduction-to-mongodb-and-python/">Introduction to MongoDB and Python</a>

shows how to use Python to interface with MongoDB via PyMongo and MongoEngine.</p>

</li>

<li>

<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL1Z_7yg6Pa3AhqCOTQKm9X_Sl9xLdMKYo&amp;v=pWbMrx5rVBE">MongoDB In 30 Minutes</a>

goes over the basics for creating, querying, updating and deleting data

in MongoDB.</p>

</li>

</ul>

<h3>Specific MongoDB resources</h3>

<ul>

<li>

<p>The <a href="https://api.mongodb.com/python/current/">PyMongo project</a> creators

wrote a retrospective focusing on four decisions they would have done

differently with the benefit of hindsight:</p>

<ol>

<li><a href="http://emptysqua.re/blog/good-idea-at-the-time-pymongo-start-request/">start_request</a></li>

<li><a href="http://emptysqua.re/blog/it-seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time-pymongo-use-greenlets/">use_greenlets</a></li>

<li><a href="http://emptysqua.re/blog/good-idea-at-the-time-pymongo-copy-database/">copy_database</a></li>

<li><a href="http://emptysqua.re/blog/good-idea-at-the-time-pymongo-mongoreplicasetclient/">MongoReplicaSetClient</a></li>

</ol>

</li>

<li>

<p><a href="https://engineering.meteor.com/mongodb-queries-dont-always-return-all-matching-documents-654b6594a827">MongoDB queries do not always return all matching documents!</a>

walks through discovering that potential pitfalls on how MongoDB queries

operate that were non-intuitive to some developers.</p>

</li>

<li>

<p><a href="https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/2/python-and-mongodb">Python and MongoDB</a>

on the Talk Python to Me podcast has a great interview with the

MongoDB Python driver maintainer</p>

</li>

<li>New <a href="/redis.html">Redis</a> and <a href="/mongodb.html">MongoDB</a> pages.</li>

<li>

<p><a href="/redis.html">Redis</a>: Add "why use redis?" section.</p>

</li>

<li>

<p><a href="/git.html">Git</a>: Add "why use git?", "what is a distributed version

"git clients" sections.</p>

</li>