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
  • Ballerina
  • C
  • C++
  • C#/.NET
  • D
  • Dart
  • Delphi
  • Elixir
  • Erlang
  • Go
  • Haskell
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Kotlin
  • Lisp
  • OCaml
  • PHP
  • PowerShell
  • Python
  • R
  • Ruby
  • Rust
  • Scala
  • Smalltalk
  • Swift
• Tools
  • Administration
  • Data
  • Deployment
  • Desktop
  • Development
  • Monitoring
  • Low-Code
  • Shell
  • Web
• Applications

Resources

Documentation

• MongoDB Server Introduction
• MongoDB Server Documentation
• MongoDB Tutorials
• MongoDB Guides
• MongoDB Driver Documentation
• MongoDB Connectors

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
• 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

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

• Deploy a Highly-Available MongoDB Replica Set on AWS
• Sharded Cluster with Docker Compose

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-c-driver - Official C 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
• 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

Go

• Bongo - ODM based on mgo
• bsonic - Parse Lucene-style query syntax into BSON filters for MongoDB
• mgo - Community Go driver
• 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
• Mongojack - Based on Jackson, allows you to easily handle your mongo objects as POJOs
• Morphia - Java ODM
• Morphium - Java ODM and caching layer
• Spring Data MongoDB - Spring based, object-document support and repositories

JavaScript

• Camo - Class-based ES6 ODM for Mongo-like databases
• connect-mongo - MongoDB session store for Connect and Express written in Typescript.
• deno_mongo - Community Deno driver
• 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
• Neuledge - Universal schema-based ORM with multi-state representation for entities
• node-mongodb-native - Official Node.js driver

Kotlin

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

Lisp

• cl-mongo - Community Common Lisp interface

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

• 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

• MongoSwift - Official MongoDB Swift driver (discontinued)
• MongoKitten - Community asynchronous Swift driver

Tools

Administration

• mgob - Full-featured MongoDB dockerized backup agent
• mongoctl - Manage MongoDB servers and replica sets using JSON configurations
• 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
• 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

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
• MongoDB MCP Server - Official Model Context Protocol server for interacting with MongoDB databases and MongoDB Atlas
• 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
• Monghoul - MongoDB GUI with smart autocomplete, visual aggregation builder, and built-in MCP server
• 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
• VisuaLeaf - MongoDB GUI designed for speed, clarity, and effortless data exploration

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
• sql-to-mongo-db-query-converter - Query converter from SQL to MongoDB
• 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

• mongo-munin - Collection of Munin plugins
• 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
• Rockmongo - PHPMyAdmin for MongoDB, sort of

Services:

• HumongouS.io - Easy online GUI and data-visualization dashboards

Applications

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

• BookCars - Cross-platform, customizable and cost-efficient car rental management application
• CodeCombat - Multiplayer programming game for learning how to code
• Countly - Mobile & web analytics and marketing platform built with Node.js
• Errbit - A Ruby on Rails based tool for collecting and managing errors from other applications.
• FactorJS - JavaScript CMS built with Mongoose
• GrandNode - Multi-platform e-commerce shopping cart built with ASP.NET
• LastSaaS - Open-source SaaS platform foundation with multi-tenant auth, Stripe billing, and MCP server, built with Go and MongoDB
• Leanote - Evernote clone built with Go
• NodeBB - Node.js based forum software ("built for the modern web")
• 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
• WildDuck Mail Server - Scalable high availability email server that uses MongoDB for email storage

License

To the extent possible under law, Guillaume Gelin has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.