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

  • Platform assets catalog

  • 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

Getting Started Tutorial

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