Load Data into Atlas

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Atlas provides sample data you can load into your Atlas clusters. You can use this data to quickly get started experimenting with data in MongoDB and using tools such as the Atlas UI and MongoDB Charts.

For descriptions of each of the available datasets, see Available Sample Datasets. Each dataset page contains information on the databases, collections, and indexes in the dataset.

You can also generate synthetic data that aligns to your real data's schema. To learn more, see Generate Synthetic Data.

To import your own data, see Migrate or Import Data.

Load Sample Data

Required Access

To load sample data, you must have Project Owner access to the project.

Users with Organization Owner access must add themselves to the project as a Project Owner.

Prerequisites

To utilize the sample data provided by Atlas, you must create an Atlas cluster to load data into. To learn more, see Cluster Types.

Load Sample Data into Your Cluster

You can load sample data into your Atlas cluster from the Atlas CLI or the Atlas UI. To load sample data into your local deployment, see Load Sample Data into Your Local Deployment.

Tip

You can use the local deployment steps to load data into a MongoDB Community or Enterprise cluster.

Load Sample Data into Your Local Deployment

To load sample data into your local deployment:

Download the sample data.

Run the following command in your terminal to download the sample data:

curl https://atlas-education.s3.amazonaws.com/sampledata.archive -o sampledata.archive

Load the data into your deployment.

Run the following command to load the data into your deployment, replacing <port-number> with the port where you're hosting the deployment:

mongorestore --archive=sampledata.archive --port=<port-number>

Available Sample Datasets

The following table shows the sample datasets available for Atlas clusters. Click a sample dataset to learn more about it.

For instructions on loading this sample data into your Atlas cluster, see Load Sample Data.

Dataset Name	Description
Sample AirBnB Listings Dataset	Contains details on AirBnB listings.
Sample Analytics Dataset	Contains training data for a mock financial services application.
Sample Geospatial Dataset	Contains shipwreck data.
Sample Guides Dataset	Contains planet data.
Sample Mflix Dataset	Contains movie data. Includes vector embeddings.
Sample Restaurants Dataset	Contains restaurant data.
Sample Supply Store Dataset	Contains data from a mock office supply store.
Sample Training Dataset	Contains MongoDB training services dataset.
Sample Weather Dataset	Contains detailed weather reports.

Sample Data Namespaces

When you load the sample data, Atlas creates the following namespaces on your cluster:

Warning

If any of these namespaces already exist on your cluster when you attempt to load the sample data, the operation will fail and no sample data will be loaded into your cluster.

Database	Collection
`sample_airbnb`	`listingsAndReviews`
`sample_analytics`	`accounts`
`sample_analytics`	`customers`
`sample_analytics`	`transactions`
`sample_geospatial`	`shipwrecks`
`sample_guides`	`planets`
`sample_mflix`	`comments`
`sample_mflix`	`embedded_movies`
`sample_mflix`	`movies`
`sample_mflix`	`theaters`
`sample_mflix`	`users`
`sample_supplies`	`sales`
`sample_training`	`companies`
`sample_training`	`grades`
`sample_training`	`inspections`
`sample_training`	`posts`
`sample_training`	`routes`
`sample_training`	`trips`
`sample_training`	`zips`
`sample_weatherdata`	`data`

Tutorials Using Sample Data

Atlas Tutorials

The Get Started with Atlas tutorial walks through setting up an Atlas cluster and populating that cluster with sample data.

MongoDB Charts Tutorials

The following MongoDB Charts tutorials guide you through visualizing sample data provided by Atlas:

Visualizing Order Data: Visualize the Sample Supply Store Dataset, which contains sales order data from a mock office supply company.
Visualizing Movie Details: Visualize the Sample Mflix Dataset, which contains data on movies and movie theaters.

Tip

To visualize data in MongoDB Charts from the Atlas UI, click Visualize Your Data when viewing a specific database or collection. Charts loads the data source and you can start building a chart in the Charts view. For detailed steps, see Build Charts.

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