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Mongodb Atlas Setting Up Using Managed Mongodb

MongoDB Atlas provides a managed cloud database service using MongoDB. The document outlines how to set up a free MongoDB Atlas account, create a cluster, configure access and security settings, connect to the database using MongoDB Compass, load sample data, and monitor cluster performance. Key features of Atlas include scalability, high availability, automatic patching and upgrades, and it works with major cloud providers.

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Mongodb Atlas Setting Up Using Managed Mongodb

MongoDB Atlas provides a managed cloud database service using MongoDB. The document outlines how to set up a free MongoDB Atlas account, create a cluster, configure access and security settings, connect to the database using MongoDB Compass, load sample data, and monitor cluster performance. Key features of Atlas include scalability, high availability, automatic patching and upgrades, and it works with major cloud providers.

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MONGODB ATLAS: SETTING UP & USING MANAGED MONGODB

In this article, I’ll show you how to set up a NoSQL cloud database using MongoDB Atlas.
The MongoDB Atlas free tiers provide developers a turnkey solution to prototype and test
applications using MongoDB as the backend database. Database as a service (DBaaS) aims to
eliminate the tedious configuration process of a database while providing a scalable, highly
available, and high-performance database.
Let’s take a look.
(This article is part of our MongoDB Guide. Use the right-hand menu to navigate.)

What is MongoDB Atlas?


MongoDB Atlas is a cloud-based NoSQL database service developed by MongoDB Inc. It was
developed to offer a flexible, scalable, and on-demand platform to eliminate the need for costly
infrastructure, configurations, and maintenance.
MongoDB Atlas provides all the features of MongoDB—without the need to worry about database
administration tasks such as:

Infrastructure provisioning
Database configurations
Patches
Scaling
Backups
Features of MongoDB Atlas
Key features of Atlas include:

Cloud provider agnostic. MongoDB Atlas is a cloud provider agnostic service that allows users
to run the database service on a cloud provider of their choice, including, of course, AWS,
Azure, and GCP.
Up-to-date features. MongoDB Atlas provides support to the two latest versions of MongoDB
service with automatic patching and one-click upgrades.
Scalability & high availability. Atlas can scale out and scale up to meet the database’s needs
effortlessly while having a minimum of three data nodes per replica set deployed across
availability zones, providing continuous database functionality.
High performance. The MongoDB WiredTiger storage engine, along with compression and
fine-grained concurrency control, gives the required performance for any database need.

Additionally, Atlas provides monitoring and alerts, strong security, workload isolation, and disaster
recovery functions.

Setting up MongoDB Atlas


MongoDB Atlas provides a free tier that can be used for learning and prototyping databases. This
free tier is called M0 Sandbox, and it is limited to 512MB of storage, shared vCPU, and RAM with 100
maximum connections on a single M0 cluster.
The MongoDB Atlas paid services are billed hourly based on your usage.
This section will guide you step-by-step guide through creating a MongoDB database cluster on
Atlas using the free tier account.

Creating a MongoDB Atlas account


First, we need to create an account in MongoDB Atlas. There are two methods to create an account:

You can use your pre-existing Google account to log in to the service.
You can use your email to create a new account by providing an email address, name,
password, and company name.

Review and accept the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy before clicking Sign Up. In this tutorial,
we will use an email to create a MongoDB Atlas account.
MongoDB Atlas website

MongoDB Atlas registration page


Configuring your Atlas account
After creating the account, enter the organization name, project name, and select your preferred
language. For this tutorial, we will select Python.

Select cluster type


We will select the Shared Clusters option because we are creating a free tier cluster.
Create a starter cluster
After going through the above steps, you’ll be presented with the Create a Starter Cluster page.
Here, you’ll select:

Cloud provider
Region
Cluster tier
MongoDB settings, like version and backup frequency

You can improve the connection latency between the application and the database by selecting a
region closest to the location where your application is deployed. We will select AWS as our cloud
provider and the N. Virginia (us-east-1) as the location.
Importantly, there is no option to create backups in the free tier. Finally, we name the cluster and
click on Create Cluster to deploy the cluster.
Creating a starter cluster

Admin interface
It will take a couple of minutes after clicking on the Create a Cluster button to create a MongoDB
with all the options specified. Then we will be redirected to the MongoDB Atlas Admin interface. We
have named the cluster as MainDBCluster.
Admin Interface

Configuring your Atlas cluster


We have now successfully created a MongoDB cluster within MongoDB Atlas. Now, we must
configure the access and security to the database before we can use the database. This section will
cover the basic configurations of the cluster.

Whitelist IP address
The first thing to do is to whitelist the IP address that can be used to access the database. By limiting
the database access to specific IP addresses, we can limit the security risk of unwanted connection
attempts to the database.
To whitelist an IP address, go to the Network Access section. Then click Add IP Address and enter
the details. We have the option to add the current IP address and configure an expiry time.
IP Whitelist page
We have selected a single IP with an expiry of six hours.

Create users
We can create users using the Database Access section in the MongoDB Atlas admin interface.
To add a user, click Add New Database User in Database Access, and enter the details of the user.
Let’s create a simple user account with the Password Authentication method and give him Read and
Write access to any database within the cluster.
Database access page

Connect to the cluster


Within the Clusters section, click the Connect button in the MainDBCluster to connect to the
database. MongoDB Atlas provides three methods to connect to the cluster:

Connect with the Mongo shell


Connect your application
Connect using MongoDB Compass

We will select the MongoDB Compass as the connection method as it would provide us a graphical
user interface (GUI) to interact with the database. After selecting the MongoDB Compass option, we
have the option to either:

Download the MongoDB Compass client


Use an existing MongoDB Compass installation
Connection methods
MongoDB Compass connection method

Access the database


Using MongoDB Compass, we will connect to the MongoDB Atlas cluster to access the database.
We will start the MongoDB Compass application and enter the connection string and click on
Connect.
MongoDB Compass Connection Interface
After a successful connection, you’ll be presented with the MongoDB Atlas cluster (MainDBCluster).

Interacting with the database


Let’s see how we can interact with the database using the MongoDB Atlas admin interface.
MongoDB Atlas provides a sample dataset that can be added to a cluster for testing purposes. To
load the sample dataset, select Load Sample Dataset in the Clusters section in the admin interface.
MongoDB Atlas admin interface

Load sample dataset


After successfully loading the sample dataset, we can interact with the data using either:

The MongoDB Atlas admin interface


MongoDB Compass

Using admin interface


Within the admin interface, we can click the Collections button in the MainDBCluster. Then you’ll be
redirected to the Collections section.
MainDBCluster Collection (simple_airbnb database)

Using MongoDB Compass


From the MongoDB Compass interface, we can simply select the necessary databases and
collections and interact with documents as needed.
Collection view (simple_mflix database)
Both methods allow you to carry out all the necessary database functions without a command-line
interface.

Monitoring the cluster


MongoDB Atlas provides metrics to monitor the cluster performance from the admin interface.
Simply click on the Metrics button in the MainDBCluster, and you’ll be redirected to the metrics
page:
Atlas cluster metrics
That concludes this tutorial on MongoDB Atlas.

Related reading
BMC Machine Learning & Big Data Blog
MongoDB Guide, a series of tutorials
Snowflake Guide
MongoDB vs Cassandra: NoSQL Databases Compared
CAP Theorem for Databases: Consistency, Availability & Partition Tolerance

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