IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB connection
To access your data in IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB, create a connection asset for it.
IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB is a MongoDB database that is managed by IBM Cloud. It uses a JSON document store with a rich query and aggregation framework.
Supported editions
- MongoDB Community Edition
- MongoDB Enterprise Edition
Create a connection to IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB
To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:
- Database name
- Hostname or IP address
- Port number
- Authentication database: The name of the database in which the user was created.
- Username and password
- SSL certificate (if required by the database server)
For Credentials and Certificates, you can use secrets if a vault is configured for the platform and the service supports vaults. For information, see Using secrets from vaults in connections.
Choose the method for creating a connection based on where you are in the platform
- In a project
- Click Assets > New asset > Data access tools > Connection. See Adding a connection to a project.
- In a catalog
- Click Add to catalog > Connection. See Adding a connection asset to a catalog.
- In a deployment space
- Click Add to space > Connection. See Adding connections to a deployment space.
- In the Platform assets catalog
- Click New connection. See Adding platform connections.
Next step: Add data assets from the connection
Where you can use this connection
You can use IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB connections in the following workspaces and tools:
Projects
- Data Refinery (Watson Studio or Watson Knowledge Catalog)
- DataStage (DataStage service). See Connecting to a data source in DataStage.
- Metadata enrichment (Watson Knowledge Catalog)
- Metadata import (Watson Knowledge Catalog)
- Notebooks (Watson Studio). Click Read data on the Code snippets pane to get the connection credentials and load the data into a data structure. See Load data from data source connections.
- SPSS Modeler (SPSS Modeler service)
Catalogs
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Platform assets catalog
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Other catalogs (Watson Knowledge Catalog)
Note:Preview, profile, and masking do not work for this connection in Watson Knowledge Catalog.
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance
The IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB connection cannot be created in a FIPS environment.
IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB setup
Restrictions
- You can only use this connection for source data. You cannot write to data or export data with this connection.
- For DataStage, table names need to be added in uppercase characters.
- MongoDB Query Language (MQL) is not supported.
Related connection: MongoDB connection
Parent topic: Supported connections