MongoDB is a document-oriented non-relational (NoSQL) database. It uses JSON-like notation, BSON (Binary Object Notation) to store the data. MongoDB offers the following features:
- It is a free, open-source, and cross-platform database software.
- It is easy to learn, can build faster applications, supports flexible schemas, handles diverse data types, and has the capability to scale in a distributed environment.
- It works on concepts of documents.
- It has a database, collection, document, field, and primary key.
We can read and write data in Python from MongoDB using the pymongo connector. For this connectivity purpose, we need to install MongoDB and the pymongo connector. You can download MongoDB from its official web portal: https://www.mongodb.com/download-center/community. PyMongo is a pure Python MongoDB client library that can be installed using pip:
pip install pymongo
Let's try database connectivity using pymongo:
# Import pymongo
import...
