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Help define an awesome MongoDB GUI tool
- jwineinger 14y agoDo everything the opposite of MongoHub and you should be golden.
- ankit_b 14y agoWhat do you think MongoHub doesn't do right?
- bharad 14y agoI am not able to select two for this question. Which scenarios are the most import to you?
- ankit_b 14y agoCan you try now?
- jacksonpollock 14y agoLegit.
- dharshanr 14y agoMy preference is for a web based UI that can be hosted or run on a developers laptop - its about time we had a decent UI that is being maintained
- areorui 14y agoPretty sick. Will try it out
- karthik7 14y agoAre you guys gonna support Redis or Couch?
- ankit_b 14y agoYes depending on the community interest.
- dthtvwls 14y agoI would definitely pay good money (like, $200) for a killer native GUI that administered both Mongo and Redis.
- suresk 14y agoI'm admittedly not too tuned-in with the Mongo/Redis/Couch communities, but I do hear from a lot of folks using my native GUI http client tool to interact with their web APIs. I kind of assumed that most users of them were fairly happy to use low level/command-line tooling - is there a big unmet demand for native GUI tools for things like Mongo, Redis, etc?
- ankimal 14y agoI would love support for Postgres and MySql as well.
- daa 14y agoThis is a tad off-topic, but I'd love something that's more like django's admin UI for mongo-using projects. Not the same tool, I know. What's a good word for something like that?
- ankit_b 14y agoGreat idea. This is one of the things we have been thinking about. We will circle back in the coming weeks with more specifics around features.
- zacsh 14y agoThis is something that I am struggling with, I am yet to find a MongoDB GUI tool that I personally or the team I am working with are happy with. Personally I would prefer something that can be run locally (so either desktop app, or web app with integrated web server/easy setup). In regards to support for other databases, my personal view is do one thing and do it well, there is enough complexity in getting it right with MongoDB before you worry about any other databases. This is something that I have personally been planning on building for a while, so if this were an open source project, I would be interested in contributing.
- phillco 14y agoAn interesting problem with making a MongoDB GUI is that a key feature of every SQL GUI -- a rich <table> of your data that you can use to see it and play with it -- won't work as well, because MongoDB doesn't have strict table definitions. (Or 'tables' for that matter). Each item in a collection could have completely different fields. So given a big collection of this irregular data, how do you display it compactly? Listing each element in JSON is inefficient.
- ankit_b 14y agoGreat point. This is what we have been discussing internally. One option would be to let folks define an "object" (Read table structure) and display based on that.
- suresk 14y agoI've kicked around some ideas for this problem a while back. I think letting users define a "view" like this is a pretty good approach. I also think a reasonable default is to just pick the the N most popular (where "popular" means defined and non-empty) non-object/collection fields in the root document and display them in a table, then double-clicking or whatever on that row brings up the full document.
- taligent 14y agoEven a simple code folding approach would be fine for showing the JSON.
- SwearWord 14y agoWe definitely need this, all the ones out there aren't that great. MongoVue is okay but not free :P
- mrchess 14y agoCurious to understand why the two biggest projects are no longer maintained. Usually usage drives people to continue development, so can we assume nobody used their products? Filled out the survey.
- postit 14y agoJust copy sequel pro, it's amazing already. Unfortunately it doesn't support mongo.