Three steps from SQL to a document database

Tutorial – SQL Database Migration

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Use a Python API to migrate a music library from SQL to a NoSQL document database.

In this article, I will show you how I used a Python application programming interface (API) to migrate my music library from an SQL relational database to a NoSQL document database. Using the Python X DevAPI in the MySQL Shell application, I will highlight some basics about document databases, the Python methods that I used, and the database tool that enables migration. Readers who should get the most out of this article are those that have some basic familiarity with the structured query language (SQL) and with the Python programming language.

Why Migrate from SQL to Document?

I have my existing personal music library in an SQL relational database containing music metadata – artist, song title, album title, track number, genre, release year – that I want to migrate to a document database. For the purpose of this article, I will use a few examples from my library (Figure 1).

Figure 1: Sample table of songs from my SQL library.

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