Unable to connect to a MongoDB using Django in Pycharm

Question

I am attempting to create a basic application to get a better understanding of Django. I would really like to use a MongoDB database, and have MongoDB set up locally on my machine. I am able to connect via MongoDB Compass and have created some basic collections/dbs.

In my Django application, I have djongo and pymongo installed. My pip list .

Package     Version
----------- -------
asgiref     3.2.3  
dataclasses 0.6    
Django      3.0    
djongo      1.2.38 
pip         19.3.1 
pymongo     3.10.0 
pytz        2019.3 
setuptools  42.0.2 
sqlparse    0.2.4  
wheel       0.33.6 

In the settings.py I have my DATABASES set up as follows:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'djongo',
        'NAME': 'djongo',
        'HOST': 'localhost:27017/djongo',
    }
}

When I attempt to run a migration, I get the following error.

django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: 'djongo' isn't an available database backend.
Try using 'django.db.backends.XXX', where XXX is one of:
    'mysql', 'oracle', 'postgresql', 'sqlite3'

I have seen similar posts online, but the solutions (ensuring djongo is installed) have not been working.

How can I use a MongoDB database with a Django application?

Answer 1

Django 3.0 was just released not too long ago which is why djongo wouldn't work yet . Was able to test this, and had no success. After downgrading to Django 2.2 that worked for OP.

Answer 2

You will have to use mongoengine or pymongo to connect to mongodb database instead of djongo.

For mongoengine see this answer:- Setting up Django and mongodb