Connecting Django +1.10 with MongoDB

Question

Does anybody replaced the default database engine in Django (+1.10) for MongoDB in the last months? All the info I get in Google is like 6 or 4 years ago.

The most commons results includes mongodb-engine which requires django-nonrel (a really old fork from Django 1.5), or mongoengine, also an outdated library that give many errors, so when you patch one, you get a new one.

I don't know if there is any "new" way to accomplish this.

Answer 1

With several builds and tests using docker to try different combinations of versions, I managed to reach to a stable and working Django MongoDB app using the following versions:

Django==1.10.0
pymongo==2.7.1
six==1.10.0
mongoengine==0.9.0

After installing the needed libraries, edit your settings.py to update or add the following

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.dummy'
    }
}
AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = (
    'mongoengine.django.auth.MongoEngineBackend',
)
from mongoengine import *
    connect('database_name', host='host_ip',  port=27017)

Change the database name and host ip. It tries to connect to localhost by default if no ip is stated.

Now, running your app should have the database connected and ready for use. Check mongoengine documentation for information on how to use it.