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MongoDB Cookbook

By : Amol Nayak
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MongoDB Cookbook

By: Amol Nayak

Overview of this book

<p>MongoDB is a high-performance and feature-rich NoSQL database that forms the backbone of numerous complex development systems. You will certainly find the MongoDB solution you are searching for in this book.</p> <p>Starting with how to initialize the server in three different modes with various configurations, you will then learn a variety of skills including the basics of advanced query operations and features in MongoDB and monitoring and backup using MMS. From there, you can delve into recipes on cloud deployment, integration with Hadoop, and improving developer productivity. By the end of this book, you will have a clear idea about how to design, develop, and deploy MongoDB.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
MongoDB Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Storing data to GridFS from a Python client


In the Storing large data in MongoDB using GridFS recipe, we saw what GridFS is and how it can be used to store large files in MongoDB. In the previous recipe, we saw how to use GridFS API from a Java client. In this recipe, we will see how to store image data into MongoDB using GridFS from a Python program.

Getting ready

Refer to the Connecting to a single node from a Java client recipe from Chapter 1, Installing and Starting the MongoDB Server, for all the necessary setup for this recipe. If you are interested in more details on Python drivers, refer to the following recipes in Chapter 3, Programming Language Drivers:

  • Installing PyMongo

  • Executing query and insert operations using PyMongo

  • Executing update and delete operations using PyMongo

Download and save the glimpse_of_universe-wide.jpg image file from the downloadable code bundle, available on the book's website, to the local filesystem, as we did in the previous recipe.

How to do it…

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