Are there any good applications that people use with the MongoDB database to make it easier? I'm using MongoVUE for looking at the data and querying data. Are there any other apps that I should know about? I'm thinking of using MongoDB from now on.
There's a MongoDB Admin UIs list you might find useful.
PHP Rock Monogo is an awesome web interface for querying that you should try out.
Download rockmongo-on-windows-v0.0.2.rar from http://code.google.com/p/rock-php/downloads/list, unzip the file and run rockstart.bat. Then, login as admin/admin in to the web interface.
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I want to create a Flutter mobile application and I want to use MongoDB Atlas as a database. Is there a Flutter package available that can help me with that?
If not, is there any other way I can connect Flutter to a MongoDB Atlas Database? If there isn't, what other options do you suggest?
Thank you in advance.
you can use the package mongo_dart, here is the catch in the database URL give URL to your MongoDB atlas database and you will be able to perform all the crud operations as usual. The documentation is pretty well written so you wouldn't have to face any pro
As #JideGuru said, what you'll want is some form of API that you can then make requests to from your app.
i.e. Instead of accessing your DB directly, you'd do something in Flutter like http.get("yourserveraddress.com/getSomethingWithThisNumber/1") using the HTTP package.
I'd recommend looking at something like Node.JS (https://nodejs.org/), which is a runtime for Javascript that allows it to be ran on servers. I'm just getting started with it and for basic CRUD (Create, read, update, delete) operations on my SQL database its been perfect. I'm not a JS developer by any stretch, but it is easy enough to pick up.
You really should never have your database being directly accessed by a client, as that means leaving it exposed on the internet!
MongoDB have their own driver for NodeJS, I've used it with atlas and it seems solid.
(https://mongodb.github.io/node-mongodb-native/)
Hope this helps!
I am developing a hybrid Cordova app (but only for Android platform) using Meteor.
App should have offline support, in a way that a user can add objects that are stored offline, in a SQLite database, and after the user connects to Internet, sync the data with server (Mongo database).
Problem is a can't find any solution for synchronisation.
I have looked at GroundDB that provided the mechanism for synchronization I need, but stored data in localStorage which doesn't provide enough storage. In newer versions it doesn't provide sync mechanism, only cashing.
Do you have any suggestions or experience with this type of problem? Any help would be much appreciated.
You could look at LokiJS, which is in a high performance JS database, with features to sync to Mongo.
I haven't used it myself, but from looking at the site, it may do what you need. http://lokijs.org/#/
You can also check out MongOGX which is a Javascript "clone" of mongo for the front end
I'm amazed by the sync capabilities of Pouch and Couch DB, but I'm looking for for an alternative that will let me use my MongoDB databases for client-sync. Is there such thing?
If there is, I'd like to hear your experience with it, what should I be aware of, if there are any catches, etc...
Minimongo is specifically what you are looking for. It was originally developed as part of the excellent Meteor framework, but it can now be used independently to get the local db store and synchronization with a remote db, all using Mongo api.
now I have an iPhone App and basically I want to exchange data from my database (MongoDB) on a server.
Could you please tell me exactly what I should do?
Forgive my innocence, I am a beginner in this area...Thank you very much ahead of time!!
I think you have two options to talk to mongo :
1) Use the rest interface http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Http+Interface
2) Use Objective-C driver: https://github.com/timburks/NuMongoDB
If you're not completely tied to MongoDB, have a look at CouchDB. It's essentially the same thing as MongoDB (JSON document store) but for the web. They have a nice built-in REST interface which makes database interaction in mobile/server environments very nice.
http://couchdb.apache.org/
In addition to Sid's options, you can also build your own backend that talks to mongodb, that communicates via REST (in your language of choice). This way you can pool your connections on the backend and avoid connectivity issues from the devices.
I am looking for a tutorial on how to make an iPhone app that fetches data from and writes data to a MySQL database. I've seen some other threads saying that I should make an abstraction layer so as not to connect directly to the database from my app, but I'm not sure of how to actually go about doing this. Does anyone know of any tutorials that involve creating an abstraction layer for a MySQL database or connecting a MySQL database to an iPhone app?
To clarify, I am looking for a secure method that wouldn't allow people to sniff out my MySQL host, username and password. It seems like the libraries that connect directly to MySQL from the iPhone all have this problem, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
This is a really good tutorial that covers how to communicate with MySQL from an iPhone app using PHP:
http://www.raywenderlich.com/2941/how-to-write-a-simple-phpmysql-web-service-for-an-ios-app
I know only one library, which makes possible connection from iPhone to MySQL. This is port of official MySQL C libraries created by Karl Kraft.
Author published also small portion of samples, which describes how to use this library.
UPDATE (Karl Kraft's broken link)
Instead of link above, I used an archived copy.
not up to date, but this tutorial helped me a lot:
http://codewithchris.com/iphone-app-connect-to-mysql-database/#connectiphonetomysql
Here http://blog.iosplace.com/?p=30 is a snippet that uses the original mysql client lib, and here http://www.karlkraft.com/index.php/2012/01/ is a link to a 3rd-party connector.
Here is a nice tutorial on how to connect to a database using web service layer.
From a practical perspective you could connect directly to a database from an iphone because that is a client server transaction. The problem is that you would need to expose your database server an issue that many would find very disturbing, because you would expose your server which hold your most valuable resource "your data". Of course you can implement and could be a good solution for rather small projects. But you would need to implement the layer which it would be used to connect on the iOS app, adding more complex to the matter.
Using a web service is more reliable even from the iOS developer, because there is a very extensive api for using web service, which offer great functionality (asynchronous transactions, threads management,JSON Mapping, XML Mapping) to name a few.
Use the library OHMySQL. It copes with MySQL through MySQL C API.