This is an extension for polymake that allows access to the online polymake polytope database on the polymake server. (See polymake.org or solros.de/polymake/poly_db for more details.)
The extensions works with releases 2.14 and 3.0 of polymake. For polymake 2.14 you should check out the tag r2.14 of this extension, for polymake 3.0 you should use the master branch.
Note that you first have to install the Perl driver for MongoDB (from cpan) by issuing:
sudo cpan MongoDB
If you don't have sudo-rights (or don't want to apply them here) see here or the file Install_MongoDB for install information.
After downloading the extension (and installing MongoDB) install it to polymake by running
import_extension("path/to/poly_db");
in polymake.
See here for a tutorial.
You can use the functions poly_db, poly_db_one and poly_db_count for simple database queries.
See here for a reference documentation of the basic read functions.
For queries returning a large number of matching objects you should construct a DatabaseCursor object to iterate over the objects.