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 database deployment to load data into. To learn more, see Create a Database Deployment.

Procedure

You can load sample data into your Atlas database deployment from the Atlas CLI or the Atlas UI.

Select the appropriate tab based on how you would like to load sample data:

Atlas Tutorials

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

Atlas Search Tutorials

Get Started with Atlas Search

Create an Atlas Search index using data from the sample_mflix sample database and run queries against the movies collection in the sample database.

Atlas Search Tutorials

Set up and query an Atlas Search index. The Atlas Search Tutorials section contains many tutorials to take you through the steps of using Atlas Search. You can learn about everything from How to Use Autocomplete with Atlas Search, to How to Run Atlas Search Queries with a Date Range Filter, or How to Run Multilingual Atlas Search Queries, and more. Many of these tutorials use the sample_mflix sample database.

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.