Time Series Quick Start

This quick start describes how to configure, create, and query a time series collection with MongoDB Atlas or a self-managed deployment.

Time required: 30 minutes

Deployment Type

Interface

Sample Data

This quick start creates a stocks time series collection with the following document structure.

{
   _id: ObjectId(...),
   ticker: <string>,
   date: ISODate(...),
   close: <double>,
   volume: <double>
}

Learning Summary

This quick start focused on creating a new time series collection. Because time series collections are optimized for time data, their performance depends heavily on how you configure them at creation. For more information, see Time Series Collection Considerations.

Next Steps

To migrate existing data into a time series collection, see Migrate Data into a Time Series Collection.
To shard a time series collection, see Shard a Time Series Collection.
For aggregation and query behaviors specific to time series collections, see Aggregation and Operator Considerations.

Learn More

To learn more about how MongoDB stores time series data internally, see About Time Series Data.
To learn more about custom bucketing parameters in MongoDB 6.3 and later, see Using Custom Bucketing Parameters.

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