Help define an awesome MongoDB GUI tool

phillco 13 years ago |

An 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 13 years ago | |

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.

suresk 13 years ago | | |

I'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 13 years ago | |

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

mrchess 13 years ago |

Curious to understand why the two biggest projects are no longer maintained.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.

daa 13 years ago |

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?

ankit_b 13 years ago | |

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.

dharshanr 13 years ago |

My 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

ankimal 13 years ago |

I would love support for Postgres and MySql as well.

bharad 13 years ago |

I am not able to select two for this question. Which scenarios are the most import to you?

ankit_b 13 years ago | |

Can you try now?

postit 13 years ago |

Just copy sequel pro, it's amazing already. Unfortunately it doesn't support mongo.

jwineinger 13 years ago |

Do everything the opposite of MongoHub and you should be golden.

ankit_b 13 years ago | |

What do you think MongoHub doesn't do right?

karthik7 13 years ago |

Are you guys gonna support Redis or Couch?

ankit_b 13 years ago | |

Yes depending on the community interest.

dthtvwls 13 years ago | | |

I would definitely pay good money (like, $200) for a killer native GUI that administered both Mongo and Redis.

suresk 13 years ago | | |

I'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?

jacksonpollock 13 years ago |

Legit.

areorui 13 years ago |

Pretty sick. Will try it out