Advanced Configuration

In Atlas, go to your federated database instance for your project.

1. If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.

2. If it's not already displayed, select your project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.

3. In the sidebar, click Data Federation under the Services heading.

   The Data Federation page displays.

Click Create Federated Database Instance.

If you have an existing federated database instance, instead click Create Federated Database in the top right corner of the dashboard.

Connect to a Data Source and add sample data to your federated database instance.

You can use a sample dataset to start exploring Atlas SQL through Atlas Data Federation without configuring a data source yourself. This tutorial references a specific sample dataset.

1. Click Add Sample Data.

2. Select AWS S3 from the Filter dropdown if it isn't selected already.

3. Expand the S3 store sample-data-atlas-data-lake if it isn't expanded already.

For this tutorial, configure your federated database instance as follows using the Federated Database Instance panel:

1. Rename the default collection.

   Click next to the default collection VirtualCollection0 to edit its name. For this tutorial, rename your collection Sessions.

2. Create a second collection.

   Click next to the default name VirtualDatabase0 to add a collection to the database. For this tutorial, name your new collection Users.

3. Add data to your virtual database.

   Drag and drop the following data sources into the respective federated database instance virtual collections:

   • /mflix/sessions.json, into the Sessions collection, and

   • /mflix/users.json into the Users collection.

Click Save.

Your federated database instance appears on the Data Federation page.