Creating database index on django mongodb

Question

I am using Django(Django-nonrel) and have models.py that contains all my tables. I would like to create index on some of the tables but I am not able to find documentation that explains how to create indices. I would expect that I can declare the index in models.py and execution of syncdb would create it on the database.

Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks!

Answer 1

Django-nonrel doesn't interact with mongodb on its own; you need the mongodb python driver (pymongo) and/or an object-document mapper (ODM) such as mongoengine or django-mongodb-engine to interact with the database. It's the job of the ODM and driver to create the indexes, and it depends on what you're using to interact with mongodb as far as what syntax you need to use to create indexes.

You should see the relevant documentation for creating indexes in pymongo, django-mongodb-engine, or mongoengine.