# Working with MongoDB in Dataiku[¶](https://knowledge.dataiku.com/latest/courses/dss-and-nosql/dss-and-mongodb/introduction.html#working-with-mongodb-in-dataiku "Permalink to this headline")

MongoDB has become very popular over the past years, and may be encountered in many industries and projects. We will show in this article how to read and write data to MongoDB from DSS.

## Technical Requirements[¶](https://knowledge.dataiku.com/latest/courses/dss-and-nosql/dss-and-mongodb/introduction.html#technical-requirements "Permalink to this headline")

You have access to a MongoDB instance with an existing database and collections. Here, we have a local MongoDB instance, with a “dataiku” database and a “github” collection. The collection uses data from the GitHub Archive, which is a project to record the public GitHub timeline, archive it, and make it easily accessible for further analysis. The raw data is provided as JSON, which makes it perfectly suitable for MongoDB.
