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Help define an awesome MongoDB GUI tool

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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.

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.

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.

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

Curious to understand why the two biggest projects are no longer maintained.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

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.

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

I would love support for Postgres and MySql as well.

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

Can you try now?

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

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

What do you think MongoHub doesn't do right?

Are you guys gonna support Redis or Couch?

Yes depending on the community interest.

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

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?

Legit.

Pretty sick. Will try it out

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