Awesome MongoDB

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

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Table of Contents

• Resources
  • Documentation
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Talks
  • Tutorials
  • More
• Libraries
  • C
  • C++
  • C#/.NET
  • Delphi
  • Elixir
  • Erlang
  • Go
  • Haskell
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Julia
  • Lisp
  • Mathematica
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • Python
  • R
  • Ruby
  • Rust
  • Scala
• Tools
  • Administration
  • Data
  • Deployment
  • Desktop
  • Development
  • Monitoring
  • Shell
  • Web
• Applications

Resources

Documentation

• MongoDB introduction
• MongoDB documentation
• MongoDB tutorials
• More MongoDB tutorials (by Studio 3T)

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)
• 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)

Books

• Builder Book - Learn how to build a full stack JavaScript web app from scratch
• MongoDB Applied Design Patterns (Rick Copeland)
• The Little MongoDB Book - Basic introduction

Talks

• MongoDB Schema Design (Tugdual Grall, MongoDB Inc.) [47']
• Partial and Fuzzy Matching with MongoDB (John Page, MongoDB Inc.) [35']
• Scaling MongoDB on Amazon Web Services (Michael Saffitz, Apptentive) [50']

Tutorials

• Create a TV Show Tracker Using AngularJS, Node.js, and MongoDB - Build a REST API using Mongoose to create and retrieve data
• Kubernetes examples - Deployment tutorial of a basic Node.js and MongoDB web stack on Kubernetes
• Deploy a Highly-Available MongoDB Replica Set on AWS

More

• MongoDB source code
• MongoDB University - Certifications and free online courses

Libraries

C

• mongo-c-driver - Official C driver

C++

• mongo-cxx-driver - Official C++ driver

C#/.NET

• mongo-csharp-driver - Official C# driver
• 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

Delphi

• TMongoWire - Minimal community Delphi driver

Elixir

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

Erlang

• mongodb-erlang - Community Erlang driver

Go

• mgo - Community 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 ("Object-Document Mapper")
• 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
• 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
• 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
• node-mongodb-native - Official Node.js driver

Julia

• Mongo.jl - C driver bindings

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

Perl

• mongo-perl-driver - Official Perl driver

PHP

• Doctrine MongoDB - Wrapper around the native PHP Mongo PECL extension to provide additional functionality
• eloquent-mongodb-repository - Repository implementation built on top of laravel-mongodb
• laravel-mongodb - Eloquent model and query builder for Laravel
• mongodb-repository - Repository implementation
• pecl/mongodb - Official PHP driver

Python

• Flask-Stupe - Flask extension that adds PyMongo support to Flask
• MongoEngine - ODM on top of PyMongo
• MongoLog - MongoDB logging handler
• Mongo-Thingy - The most idiomatic and friendly-yet-powerful ODM
• Motor - Non-blocking Python driver for Tornado or asyncio
• PyMongo - Official (and recommended) Python driver
• minimongo - A lightweight, schemaless, Pythonic Object-Oriented interface
• scrapy-mongodb - MongoDB pipeline for Scrapy
• μMongo - Driver-independent (async/sync) ODM based on marshmallow

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

• mongo-rust-driver-prototype - Prototype driver for Rust 1.x and MongoDB 3.0.x

Scala

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

Tools

Administration

• 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:

• Compose - IBM DBaaS offer (has other database types too)
• mLab - Fully managed DBaaS (formerly MongoLab)
• 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_fdw - PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper
• mongo-hadoop - Hadoop connector
• Mongolastic - MongoDB to Elasticsearch (and vice-versa) migration tool
• MongoMultiMaster - Multi-master replication
• MoSQL - MongoDB to PostgreSQL streaming replication

Deployment

• ansible-role-mongodb - Ansible role
• chef-mongodb - Chef cookbook
• Dockerfile
• Helm Chart
• puppet-mongodb - Puppet module (formerly puppetlabs-mongodb)

Desktop

• dbKoda - Cross-platform and open-source IDE
• MongoHub - Mac native client
• Mongotron - Cross-platform and open-source client built with Electron
• NoSQLBooster - Feature-rich but easy-to-use cross-platform IDE (formerly MongoBooster)
• Nosqlclient - Cross-platform, self hosted and easy to use management tool (formerly Mongoclient)
• Robo 3T - Free, native and cross-platform shell-centric GUI (formerly Robomongo)
• Studio 3T - Cross-platform GUI, stable and powerful (formerly MongoChef)

Development

• mgodatagen - Random data generator
• 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

Services:

• MongoDB Stitch - MongoDB Inc. serverless platform offer

Monitoring

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

Services:

• Datadog - SaaS-based monitoring
• VividCortex - SaaS-based query performance analytics and monitoring

Shell

• mongo-hacker - MongoDB shell enhancements

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
• mongri - Web-based user interface written in JavaScript
• Rockmongo - PHPMyAdmin for MongoDB, sort of

Services:

• HumongouS.io - Easy online GUI and data-visualization dashboards
• MongoDB Compass - MongoDB Inc. online GUI and data-visualization platform (has a community version)

Applications

Those open-source applications have MongoDB somewhere in their stack:

• Builder Book App - Web app to publish books or documentation built with React and Express
• CodeCombat - Multiplayer programming game for learning how to code
• Countly - Mobile & web analytics and marketing platform built with Node.js
• GrandNode - Multi-platform e-commerce shopping cart built with ASP.NET
• Leanote - Evernote clone built with Go
• NodeBB - Node.js based forum software ("built for the modern web")
• Quokka - Python CMS built with Flask
• Reaction - Event-driven, real-time commerce platform built with ES6
• SaaS Boilerplate - Boilerplate for SaaS products, built with TypeScript, React and Express
• uptime - Remote monitoring application built with Node.js and Bootstrap

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