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That's cool actually. Not being in the browser is not a dealbreaker. I need something simple, not clunky, preferably free or low subscription cost. Checking out Robomongo as I write this.

EDIT: neither of these can be used for BI like visualisations, can they?

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No RoboMongo (at least last I knew) is only for data access, not BI visualization. Honestly, I am not aware of any tools that do BI visualization directly from Mongo, there are plenty for SQL of course.

In my opinion/experience, Mongo isn't really a good generic BI data warehouse/lake etc, so it probably will be hard to find generic tooling around that specific problem domain using Mongo without custom writing your own map-reduce and building your own visualizations with like highcharts/syncfusion/d3 etc.

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