Mongo DB Atlas is used for storing basic information (name, longitude, latitude, categories and accessibility) about the Point of Interests (POI's). If database is lost, the POI's are recovered automatically from a static JSON file.
There are two Atlas accounts in use, development and production. There is no difference in set-up - we have two accounts due to fact that free Mongo Atlas tier has some limitations i.e. on the database size. Refer to a team member for the password, connection strings for accounts are:
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Development
mongodb+srv:https://helsinkiunicollab:<password>@development.qebxr8j.mongodb.net/?retryWrites=true&w=majority
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Production
mongodb+srv:https://helsinkiunicollab:<password>@production.djrvu6z.mongodb.net/?retryWrites=true&w=majority
To access the databases, you need credentials. The username for both databases is helsinkiunicollab. Please ask a team member for the respective passwords.
To securely store the passwords, add them to as environment variable DEVELOPMENT_DB_URI in an .env file in the project root directory. You can do that using the script, instructions given in the README.md.
Our MongoDB clusters are hosted in Stockholm, ensuring compliance with data protection regulations within the EU area.
There are no IP restrictions on the clusters, so they can be accessed from any IP address.
For administrative access to each database on MongoDB Atlas an email account is needed. Reach out to a team member to obtain the necessary credentials. These credentials are not the same the databases use.
We use PyMongo, the official MongoDB driver for Python, to establish connections and interact with the MongoDB databases in our Flask application.
For more details on PyMongo and how it is used in the project, refer to the relevant code and comments within the codebase.