MongoDB

Awesome MongoDB ¶

A curated list of awesome MongoDB resources, libraries, tools and applications

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Resources¶

Documentation¶

Articles¶

14 Things I Wish I'd Known When Starting with MongoDB (Phil Factor)
A Custom WordPress Dashboard with MongoDB Atlas, Microsoft Azure, & Serverless Functions (Ahmad Awais)
Building with Patterns - Series of articles regarding MongoDB Design Patterns and common use case of each Design Pattern with real world examples.
Five Things About Scaling MongoDB (A. Jesse Jiryu Davis, MongoDB Inc.) - Scale 101
Optimizing MongoDB Compound Indexes (A. Jesse Jiryu Davis, MongoDB Inc.) - Everything you need/have to know about indexes
Server Discovery And Monitoring In PyMongo, Perl, And C (A. Jesse Jiryu Davis, MongoDB Inc.)
Monitoring MongoDB performance metrics (Jean-Mathieu Saponaro, Datadog)
Tuning MongoDB performance for production systems (Marek Trunkat, Apify) - The techniques and MongoDB Cloud features to debug performance issues and expose sub-optimal queries

Books¶

50 Tips and Tricks for MongoDB Developers - Advanced MongoDB tips and tricks, given by a MongoDB inc. engineer
Builder Book - Learn how to build a full stack JavaScript web app from scratch
MongoDB Applied Design Patterns (Rick Copeland)
MongoDB in Action, Third Edition (Arek Borucki)
Practical MongoDB Aggregations E-Book - Free e-book: How to develop effective and optimal data manipulation and analytics pipelines
The Little MongoDB Book - Basic introduction
SaaS Boilerplate Book - Learn how to build a production-ready SaaS web app from scratch

Talks¶

Tutorials¶

More¶

MongoDB source code
MongoDB University - Certifications and free online courses
MongoDB 101 by Academy 3T - Free and self-paced MongoDB courses for beginners

Libraries¶

Ballerina¶

ballerina-mongodb - Official Ballerina driver

C++¶

mongo-cxx-driver - Official C++ driver

C#/.NET¶

mongo-csharp-driver - Official C# driver
mongo-efcore-provider - Official Entity Framework (EF) Core provider for MongoDB
mongo-queue-csharp - C# message queue on top of MongoDB
MongoDB Messaging - Lightweight queue pub/sub processing library
MongoRepository - Repository abstraction layer on top of the C# driver

D¶

vibe.d - D web framework shipping with a MongoDB driver

Dart¶

mongo_dart - Community Dart driver

Delphi¶

Alcinoe - Library for Delphi that includes a MongoDB client
TMongoWire - Minimal community Delphi driver

Elixir¶

elixir-mongodb-driver - Community Elixir driver
mongodb - Community Elixir driver
mongodb_ecto - Adapter for the Ecto database wrapper

Erlang¶

mongodb-erlang - Community Erlang driver

Fantom¶

afMongo - Community Fantom driver

Go¶

Bongo - ODM based on mgo
mgo - Community Go driver
minquery - MongoDB cursor that paginates
mongo-go-driver - Official Go driver

Haskell¶

mongodb - Community Haskell driver

Java¶

Jongo - Query in Java as in Mongo shell
Hibernate OGM - The power and simplicity of JPA for NoSQL datastores
mongo-java-driver - Official Java driver
mongo-queue-java - Java message queue on top of MongoDB
mongoFS - An enhancement of GridFS to allow for more features and capabilities
Mongojack - Based on Jackson, allows you to easily handle your mongo objects as POJOs
Morphia - Java ODM
Morphium - Java ODM and caching layer
Mungbean - Community driver for languages running on the JVM
Spring Data MongoDB - Spring based, object-document support and repositories

JavaScript¶

Camo - Class-based ES6 ODM for Mongo-like databases
deno_mongo - Community Deno driver
DeriveJS - Reactive ODM that uses Javascript Proxies to enable transparent DB persistence
MEAN.JS - Full stack based on MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js
MERN (mern-starter) - Full stack based on MongoDB, Express, React and Node.js
Meteor - Real-time/reactive client-server framework based on MongoDB, with lots of features
MongoMQ2 - A general-purpose message and event queuing library for MongoDB
Mongoose - Node.js asynchronous ODM
CASL Mongoose - Permissions management library integrated with Mongoose
mongration - Node.js migration framework
Moonridge - Framework with live querying on top of Mongoose and socket.io
Neuledge - Universal schema-based ORM with multi-state representation for entities
node-mongodb-native - Official Node.js driver

Julia¶

Mongo.jl - C driver bindings

Kotlin¶

driver-kotlin-coroutine - Official Kotlin driver
kmongo - Kotlin toolkit based on the Java driver

Lisp¶

cl-mongo - Community Common Lisp interface
mongo-cl-driver Community Common Lisp driver
mongo-el - Community Emacs Lisp driver

Mathematica¶

MongoDBLink - Community Mathematica driver

OCaml¶

Mongo.ml - Community OCaml driver

PHP¶

laravel-mongodb - Official Eloquent model and query builder for Laravel
PHP Driver - Official PHP driver
Doctrine MongoDB ODM and MongoDB ODM Bundle for Symfony - Fully featured ORM with Symfony integration
MongoDB Bundle - Integration of the official library with Symfony, without ORM
yii-mongodb - Yii 2 MongoDB extension
opentelemetry php auto-mongodb - Automatic monitoring of MongoDB commands with OpenTelemetry
mongo-php-adapter - Adapter for applications using ext-mongo

PowerShell¶

Mdbc - MongoDB cmdlets for PowerShell

Python¶

AtlasQ - MongoDB Atlas Search wrapper with MongoEngine syntax
Beanie - Asynchronous ODM based on Motor and Pydantic, which supports migrations out of the box
Djongo - MongoDB connector for Django compatible with Django ORM
Mongo-Thingy - Powerful schema-less ODM for MongoDB and Python (sync + async)
MongoEngine - ODM on top of PyMongo
Motor - Official non-blocking Python driver for Tornado or asyncio
PyMongo - Official Python driver
ODMantic - Asynchronous ODM on top of pydantic
TxMongo - Twisted's MongoDB driver

R¶

mongolite - Fast and simple client for R

Ruby¶

awesome_explain - A simple global method to explain Mongoid queries
mongo-ruby-driver - Official Ruby driver
Mongoid - ODM framework

Rust¶

mongodb-rust-driver - Official Rust driver

Scala¶

driver-scala - Official Scala driver
ReactiveMongo - Non-blocking Scala driver
Spark-MongoDB - Read/write data with Spark SQL

Smalltalk¶

MongoTalk - Community Smalltalk driver

Swift¶

MongoKitten - Community asynchronous Swift driver

Tools¶

Administration¶

k8s-backup-mongodb - Schedule MongoDB backups to S3 with a Kubernetes CronJob.
mgob - Full-featured MongoDB dockerized backup agent
mongoctl - Manage MongoDB servers and replica sets using JSON configurations
MongoDB Smasher - Generate randomized datasets and benchmark your setup
mongodb-tools - Three neat Python scripts to work with collections and indexes
mtools - Collection of scripts to set up test environments and visualize log files
nginx-gridfs - Nginx module for serving files from GridFS
nginx-mongodb-rest - REST client written as an Nginx module
pt-mongodb-query-digest - Aggregates queries from query profiler and reports query usage statistics
pt-mongodb-summary - MongoDB cluster status overview command line tool

Services: - MongoDB Atlas - MongoDB Inc. DBaaS offer (works with AWS, Azure, or GCP) - MongoDB Cloud Manager - MongoDB Inc. databases management offer - ObjectRocket - Rackspace DBaaS offer (has other database types too) - Scalegrid - Fully managed DBaaS (with option to bring your own Azure/AWS account)

Data¶

mongo-connector - Streaming replication to Elasticsearch, Solr, or MongoDB
mongo_fdw - PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper
mongo-hadoop - Hadoop connector
Mongolastic - MongoDB to Elasticsearch (and vice-versa) migration tool
MongoMultiMaster - Multi-master replication

Services: - Cluster to cluster sync - MongoDB Inc. solution for continuous data sync between separate clusters

Deployment¶

ansible-role-mongodb - Ansible role
chef-mongodb - Chef cookbook
DockerHub Official Docker Image
Helm Chart
puppet-mongodb - Puppet module (formerly puppetlabs-mongodb)

Desktop¶

Compass - Free Cross-platform GUI from MongoDB
MongoDB for VS Code - Connect to MongoDB and prototype queries from VS Code
MongoHub - Mac native client
WebDB – Web-based and open-source "efficient database IDE". Provides ERDs, data generators, an AI assistant, a NoSQL structure manager, a time machine, auto-completion and more

Services: - DataGrip - Cross-platform JetBrains' IDE - Mingo - MongoDB Admin. Intuitive UI. Fast. Reliable - Moon Modeler - Data modeling tool for MongoDB and relational databases - NoSQLBooster - Feature-rich but easy-to-use cross-platform IDE (formerly MongoBooster) - Studio 3T - Cross-platform GUI, stable and powerful (formerly MongoChef and Robo 3T) - TablePlus - Native, lightweight GUI on macOS

Development¶

C# Analyzer - View the MongoDB Query API equivalents of your builder expressions in Visual Studio
mgodatagen - Random data generator
migrate-mongo - Database migration tool
Mongo Playground - Online query playground
Mongo Seeding - Node.js library, CLI and Docker image for populating databases using JS and JSON files
Mongoeye - Schema and data analyzer: explore data in your collections
Variety - Schema analyzer: see what fields are in your collection and what's their content
VS Code Extension

Services: - MongoDB Atlas App Services - MongoDB Inc. solution to run code without the operational overhead - MongoDB Realm - MongoDB Inc. solution for mobile data sync

Monitoring¶

check_mongodb - Nagios plugin (in Bash)
mongo-monitor - Simple monitoring CLI
mongo-munin - Collection of Munin plugins
Mongoop - Long operations monitoring and alerting
mongomon - More Munin plugins
Motop - MongoDB top clone
mtop - Another top clone
nagios-plugin-mongodb - Nagios plugin (in Python)
Percona Monitoring and Management - Free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring databases performances
mongotail - Log all MongoDB queries in a "tail"able way

Services:

Datadog - SaaS-based monitoring
Solarwindws Database Performance Monitor - SaaS-based query performance analytics and monitoring

Low-Code¶

💡 These tools are not necessarily made for MongoDB in particular, but support it.

Appsmith - Open-source Retool alternative
Appwrite - Open-source Firebase alternative
Budibase - Open-source Retool alternative
ILLA Builder - Open-source Retool alternative
Tooljet - Open-source Retool alternative

Services: - DronaHQ - Retool alternative - Retool - Drag-and-drop editor with pre-built components to build internal tools

Shell¶

MongoDB Atlas CLI - Official Atlas API command-line client
mongosh - Official command-line client

Web¶

adminMongo - Web-based user interface to handle connections and databases needs
mongo-express - Web-based admin interface built with Express
mongoadmin - Admin interface built with Django
Mongoku - MongoDB client for the web
mongri - Web-based user interface written in JavaScript
Rockmongo - PHPMyAdmin for MongoDB, sort of