Warning

These APIs are available for MongoDB only, so using any of these features breaks portability to other non-relational databases (Google App Engine, Cassandra, Redis, ...). For the sake of portability you should try to avoid database-specific features whenever possible.

Lower-Level API

from django_mongodb_engine.contrib import MongoDBManager

class FooModel(models.Model):
    ...
    objects = MongoDBManager()

>>> FooModel.objects.raw_query(...)
>>> FooModel.objects.raw_update(...)

MongoDBManager.raw_query(query=None)

Does a raw MongoDB query. The optional parameter query is the spec passed to PyMongo’s <Collection.find> pymongo.Collection.find().

MongoDBManager.raw_update(spec_or_q, update_dict, **kwargs)

Does a raw MongoDB update. spec_or_q is either a MongoDB filter dict or a Q instance that selects the records to update. update_dict is a MongoDB style update document containing either a new document or atomic modifiers such as $inc.

Keyword arguments will be passed to pymongo.Collection.update().

MongoDBManager.distinct(*args, **kwargs)

Runs a distinct() query against the database.