gistfile1.py

### Testing MongoDB mass insert with pymongo

import pymongo

mongo = pymongo.Connection('localhost')
mongo_db = mongo['test']
mongo_collection = mongo_db['masstest']

n = 1
limit = 100000
firstnames  = [ "John", "Jim", "James", "Sarah", "Anna", "Maria", "Sophia", "Martin", "Nick", "Bart" ]

while n <= limit:
	for name in firstnames:
		insert = mongo_collection.insert({
		'name': name
		})
	n = n +1

gistfile2.txt

Result:

bicofino@ambush:~$ time python2.7 test_pymongo.py 

real	1m25.385s
user	1m16.104s
sys	0m8.608s