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Help define an awesome MongoDB GUI tool

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Re: Help define an awesome MongoDB GUI tool

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Post by ankit_b »

daa wrote: post #10

This 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?

Great 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.

Re: Help define an awesome MongoDB GUI tool

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Post by zacsh »

This 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.

Re: Help define an awesome MongoDB GUI tool

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Post by phillco »

An interesting problem with making a MongoDB GUI is that a key feature of every SQL GUI -- a rich 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.

Re: Help define an awesome MongoDB GUI tool

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Post by ankit_b »

phillco wrote: post #13

An interesting problem with making a MongoDB GUI is that a key feature of every SQL GUI -- a rich 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…

Great 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.

Re: Help define an awesome MongoDB GUI tool

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Post by taligent »

phillco wrote: post #13

An interesting problem with making a MongoDB GUI is that a key feature of every SQL GUI -- a rich 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…

Even a simple code folding approach would be fine for showing the JSON.
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