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Awesome MongoDB 
A curated list of awesome MongoDB resources, libraries, tools and applications
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Table of Contents
Resources
Documentation
- MongoDB Server Introduction
- MongoDB Server Documentation
- MongoDB Tutorials
- MongoDB Guides
- MongoDB Developer Center
- 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
- Builder Book - Learn how to build a full stack JavaScript web app from scratch
- MongoDB Applied Design Patterns (Rick Copeland)
- Practical MongoDB Aggregations E-Book - Free e-book: How to develop effective and optimal data manipulation and analytics pipelines
- The Little MongoDB Book (⭐4) - Basic introduction
- SaaS Boilerplate Book - Learn how to build a production-ready SaaS web app from scratch
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
- Kubernetes examples (⭐6k) - Deployment tutorial of a basic Node.js and MongoDB web stack on Kubernetes
- Deploy a Highly-Available MongoDB Replica Set on AWS
- Sharded Cluster with Docker Compose (⭐438)
More
- MongoDB source code (⭐25k)
- MongoDB University - Certifications and free online courses
- MongoDB 101 by Academy 3T - Free and self-paced MongoDB courses for beginners
Libraries
Ballerina
- ballerina-mongodb (⭐126) - Official Ballerina driver
C
- mongo-c-driver (⭐794) - Official C driver
C++
- mongo-cxx-driver (⭐1k) - Official C++ driver
C#/.NET
- mongo-csharp-driver (⭐3.1k) - Official C# driver
- mongo-queue-csharp (⭐3) - C# message queue on top of MongoDB
- MongoDB Messaging (⭐60) - Lightweight queue pub/sub processing library
- MongoRepository (⭐310) - Repository abstraction layer on top of the C# driver
D
- vibe.d - D web framework shipping with a MongoDB driver
Dart
- mongo_dart (⭐436) - Community Dart driver
Delphi
- Alcinoe (⭐946) - Library for Delphi that includes a MongoDB client
- TMongoWire (⭐102) - Minimal community Delphi driver
Elixir
- elixir-mongodb-driver (⭐232) - Community Elixir driver
- mongodb (⭐563) - Community Elixir driver
- mongodb_ecto (⭐363) - Adapter for the Ecto database wrapper
Erlang
- mongodb-erlang (⭐343) - Community Erlang driver
Fantom
- afMongo (⭐0) - Community Fantom driver
Go
- Bongo (⭐487) - ODM based on mgo
- mgo (⭐2k) - Community Go driver
- minquery (⭐62) - MongoDB cursor that paginates
- mongo-go-driver (⭐7.9k) - Official Go driver
Haskell
- mongodb (⭐167) - Community Haskell driver
Java
- Jongo (⭐580) - Query in Java as in Mongo shell
- Hibernate OGM (⭐319) - The power and simplicity of JPA for NoSQL datastores
- mongo-java-driver (⭐2.6k) - Official Java driver
- mongo-queue-java (⭐35) - Java message queue on top of MongoDB
- mongoFS (⭐20) - An enhancement of GridFS to allow for more features and capabilities
- Mongojack (⭐266) - Based on Jackson, allows you to easily handle your mongo objects as POJOs
- Morphia (⭐1.6k) - Java ODM
- Morphium (⭐54) - Java ODM and caching layer
- Mungbean (⭐18) - Community driver for languages running on the JVM
- Spring Data MongoDB (⭐1.6k) - Spring based, object-document support and repositories
JavaScript
- Camo (⭐554) - Class-based ES6 ODM for Mongo-like databases
- deno_mongo (⭐508) - Community Deno driver
- DeriveJS (⭐2) - Reactive ODM that uses Javascript Proxies to enable transparent DB persistence
- MEAN.JS (⭐4.9k) - Full stack based on MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and Node.js
- MERN (mern-starter) (⭐5.1k) - Full stack based on MongoDB, Express, React and Node.js
- Meteor (⭐44k) - Real-time/reactive client-server framework based on MongoDB, with lots of features
- Mongoose (⭐27k) - Node.js asynchronous ODM
- CASL Mongoose (⭐5.6k) - Permissions management library integrated with Mongoose
- mongration (⭐84) - Node.js migration framework
- Moonridge (⭐66) - Framework with live querying on top of Mongoose and socket.io
- Neuledge (⭐237) - Universal schema-based ORM with multi-state representation for entities
- node-mongodb-native (⭐10k) - Official Node.js driver
Julia
- Mongo.jl (⭐30) - C driver bindings
Kotlin
- driver-kotlin-coroutine (⭐2.6k) - Official Kotlin driver
- kmongo (⭐785) - Kotlin toolkit based on the Java driver
Lisp
- cl-mongo (⭐142) - Community Common Lisp interface
- mongo-cl-driver (⭐35) Community Common Lisp driver
- mongo-el (⭐47) - Community Emacs Lisp driver
Mathematica
- MongoDBLink (⭐17) - Community Mathematica driver
OCaml
- Mongo.ml - Community OCaml driver
PHP
- eloquent-mongodb-repository (⭐18) - Repository implementation built on top of laravel-mongodb
- laravel-mongodb (⭐6.9k) - Eloquent model and query builder for Laravel
- mongodb-repository (⭐9) - Repository implementation
- mongo-php-adapter (⭐465) - Adapter for applications using
ext-mongo - PHP Driver (⭐866) - Official PHP driver
- PHPMongo ODM (⭐243) - ODM based on the PHP Mongo PECL extension
- PHPMongo Migrator (⭐29) - Migration tool based on PHPMongo ODM
- yadm (⭐84) - Fast schemaless ODM
PowerShell
- Mdbc (⭐137) - MongoDB cmdlets for PowerShell
Python
- AtlasQ (⭐6) - MongoDB Atlas Search wrapper with MongoEngine syntax
- Beanie (⭐1.8k) - Asynchronous ODM based on Motor and Pydantic, which supports migrations out of the box
- Djongo (⭐1.8k) - MongoDB connector for Django compatible with Django ORM
- Flask-MongoEngine (⭐840) - Flask extension that integrates MongoEngine, WTForms and FlaskDebugToolbar
- Flask-Stupe (⭐27) - Flask extension that adds PyMongo support to Flask
- Mongo-Thingy (⭐67) - Powerful schema-less ODM for MongoDB and Python (sync + async)
- MongoEngine (⭐4.2k) - ODM on top of PyMongo
- MongoLog (⭐134) - MongoDB logging handler
- Motor (⭐2.3k) - Official non-blocking Python driver for Tornado or asyncio
- PyMongo (⭐4k) - Official Python driver
- PyMongoExplain (⭐3) - A wrapper for PyMongo's Collection object that makes it easy to run
explainon your queries. - minimongo (⭐334) - A lightweight, schemaless, Pythonic Object-Oriented interface
- ODMantic (⭐965) - Asynchronous ODM on top of pydantic
- scrapy-mongodb (⭐355) - MongoDB pipeline for Scrapy
- TxMongo (⭐336) - Twisted's MongoDB driver
- μMongo (⭐442) - Driver-independent (async/sync) ODM based on marshmallow
R
- mongolite (⭐282) - Fast and simple client for R
Ruby
- awesome_explain (⭐16) - A simple global method to explain Mongoid queries
- mongo-ruby-driver (⭐1.4k) - Official Ruby driver
- Mongoid (⭐3.9k) - ODM framework
Rust
- mongodb-rust-driver (⭐1.4k) - Official Rust driver
Scala
- driver-scala (⭐2.6k) - Official Scala driver
- ReactiveMongo (⭐845) - Non-blocking Scala driver
- Spark-MongoDB (⭐307) - Read/write data with Spark SQL
Smalltalk
- MongoTalk (⭐19) - Community Smalltalk driver
Swift
- MongoKitten (⭐693) - Community asynchronous Swift driver
Tools
Administration
- k8s-backup-mongodb (⭐32) - Schedule MongoDB backups to S3 with a Kubernetes CronJob.
- mgob (⭐770) - Full-featured MongoDB dockerized backup agent
- mongoctl (⭐178) - Manage MongoDB servers and replica sets using JSON configurations
- MongoDB Smasher (⭐33) - Generate randomized datasets and benchmark your setup
- mongodb-tools (⭐295) - Three neat Python scripts to work with collections and indexes
- mtools (⭐1.9k) - Collection of scripts to set up test environments and visualize log files
- nginx-gridfs (⭐793) - Nginx module for serving files from GridFS
- nginx-mongodb-rest (⭐30) - 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 (⭐1.9k) - Streaming replication to Elasticsearch, Solr, or MongoDB
- mongo_fdw (⭐314) - PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper
- mongo-hadoop (⭐1.5k) - Hadoop connector
- Mongolastic (⭐137) - MongoDB to Elasticsearch (and vice-versa) migration tool
- MongoMultiMaster (⭐69) - Multi-master replication
Services:
- ProvenDB - Blockchain based Data integrity solution for MongoDB
Deployment
- ansible-role-mongodb (⭐340) - Ansible role
- chef-mongodb (⭐362) - Chef cookbook
- DockerHub Official Docker Image
- Helm Chart (⭐16k)
- puppet-mongodb (⭐93) - Puppet module (formerly puppetlabs-mongodb)
Services:
- Cluster to cluster sync - MongoDB Inc. solution for continuous data sync between separate clusters
Desktop
- Compass (⭐970) - Free Cross-platform GUI from MongoDB
- MongoDB for VS Code - Connect to MongoDB and prototype queries from VS Code
- MongoHub (⭐2.4k) - Mac native client
- WebDB (⭐99) – 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 (⭐21) - View the MongoDB Query API equivalents of your builder expressions in Visual Studio
- mgodatagen (⭐312) - Random data generator
- migrate-mongo (⭐890) - Database migration tool
- Mongo Playground (⭐172) - Online query playground
- Mongo Seeding (⭐547) - Node.js library, CLI and Docker image for populating databases using JS and JSON files
- Mongoeye (⭐157) - Schema and data analyzer: explore data in your collections
- Variety (⭐1.7k) - Schema analyzer: see what fields are in your collection and what's their content
- VS Code Extension (⭐299)
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 (⭐15) - Nagios plugin (in Bash)
- mongo-monitor (⭐77) - Simple monitoring CLI
- mongo-munin (⭐145) - Collection of Munin plugins
- Mongoop (⭐39) - Long operations monitoring and alerting
- mongomon (⭐23) - More Munin plugins
- Motop (⭐67) - MongoDB top clone
- mtop (⭐50) - Another top clone
- nagios-plugin-mongodb (⭐347) - Nagios plugin (in Python)
- Percona Monitoring and Management - Free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring databases performances
- mongotail (⭐189) - 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 (⭐31k) - Open-source Retool alternative
- Appwrite (⭐41k) - Open-source Firebase alternative
- Budibase (⭐21k) - Open-source Retool alternative
- ILLA Builder (⭐11k) - Open-source Retool alternative
- Tooljet (⭐26k) - 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 (⭐152) - Official Atlas API command-line client
- mongosh (⭐295) - Official command-line client
Web
- adminMongo (⭐3.9k) - Web-based user interface to handle connections and databases needs
- mongo-express (⭐5.3k) - Web-based admin interface built with Express
- mongoadmin (⭐250) - Admin interface built with Django
- Mongoku (⭐1.3k) - MongoDB client for the web
- mongri (⭐75) - Web-based user interface written in JavaScript
- Rockmongo (⭐1k) - 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:
- Builder Book App (⭐3.7k) - Web app to publish books or documentation built with React and Express
- CodeCombat (⭐7.9k) - Multiplayer programming game for learning how to code
- Countly (⭐5.4k) - Mobile & web analytics and marketing platform built with Node.js
- FactorJS (⭐1.4k) - JavaScript CMS built with Mongoose
- GrandNode (⭐1.9k) - Multi-platform e-commerce shopping cart built with ASP.NET
- Leanote (⭐12k) - Evernote clone built with Go
- NodeBB (⭐14k) - Node.js based forum software ("built for the modern web")
- Reaction (⭐12k) - Event-driven, real-time commerce platform built with ES6
- SaaS Boilerplate (⭐3.9k) - Boilerplate for SaaS products, built with TypeScript, React and Express
- uptime (⭐3.6k) - Remote monitoring application built with Node.js and Bootstrap
- WildDuck Mail Server (⭐1.8k) - Scalable high availability email server that uses MongoDB for email storage
License
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