Use MongoDB Shell to Connect to Tigris the OSS Alternative to MongoDB Atlas

The MongoDB Shell, mongosh, is one of the standard tools used to interact with MongoDB deployments. In this post, I will demonstrate using mongosh with Tigris.

You will see that you do not have to create a MongoDB Atlas cluster. m1k.preview.tigrisdata.cloud is a serverless deployment we will use. It has built-in automatic database sharding, meaning that, unlike MongoDB Atlas, you must never worry about sharding or shard keys, and the data distribution is automatically handled.