Which is the best MongoDB GUI

Which is the best MongoDB GUI?

A good UI is A important part of the development experience. The MONGO shell works great for administrative actions if working with larger amounts of data, the UI becomes fairly Important. There is a number of options when it comes to the MongoDB GUI, some good and some not so good. Our customers regularly ask us which UI we recommend–below is some of the options for MongoDB UI we have considered. Our main scenarios is data visualization, presentation and editing. As always your mileage might vary depending on your scenario and preferences.

1) Mongovue –mongovue is a desktop GUI for the Windows platform. It has a simple clean UI and the basic features is free. Data can is presented in text view, tree view or table view. You can also save your find queries for later Usage–we find this rather convenient. The more advanced features requires your to purchase a license. Overall the software appears stable and well maintained.

2) Mongohub is a native Mac GUI for MongoDB. IT provides you the option to connect to your MongoDB server through a SSH tunnel which are fairly convenient from a securit Y perspective. The "Statmonitor" feature give you a live display of stats a.k.a Mongostat. The query interface is a little bit more limited on that it has seems to support a tree view. Also there is no-to-save a Find query for later. In we experience the software appears to work fairly well it doesn ' t seem like it's being maintained–so R own risk.

3) Rockmongo is a HTML based MongoDB GUI. The GUI is authored in PHP and is open source. The downside of the HTML based approach is so you need a PHP server to run this GUI. You can also choose to run the PHP server on your local box. The UI is no-frill, fairly easy-to-use and supports all the common options of working with collections, stats etc. The Find interface only presents data in a tabular/text model–so it could is an issue if you were working with Multilev El documents. Also there doesn ' t seem to being a lot of checkin Activity–so we suspect the project is inactive.

4) Robomongo is Shell centric MongoDB GUI that supports the Windows, MacOS and Linux platforms. It ' s still early days for Robomongo with the latest version being 0.8.4. It is also one of the few GUI's that supports SSL connections to your MongoDB server. There is also support for connecting through a SSH tunnel. The query interface displays data in tree view, table view and text view. You can also save your queries for later usage. One of the coolest features is that it also have support for the shell–so you can still continue to use the shell command S is comfortable with. There is some quirks in the UI which I think would get worked out over time. If actively maintained I think this could is the best cross-platform GUI for MongoDB.

So which UI do we prefer? Our developers in Windows prefer to use Mongovue and the ones on Mac prefer Robomongo. As always if you had any questions the reach out to us at [email protected]