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What is Mongoid?

The philosophy of Mongoid is to provide a familiar API to Ruby developers who have been using Active Record or Data Mapper, while leveraging the power of MongoDB's schemaless and performant document-based design, dynamic queries, and atomic modifier operations.
Mongoid is a tool in the Object Document Mapper (ODM) category of a tech stack.
Mongoid is an open source tool with 25 GitHub stars and 22 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Mongoid's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Mongoid?

Companies
10 companies reportedly use Mongoid in their tech stacks, including Sensor Tower, WOVN.io, and dakwak.

Developers
76 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Mongoid.

Mongoid Integrations

Pros of Mongoid
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Can be used without Rails
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Supports Referenced and Embedded Associations
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Easy to add 'created_at' and 'updated_at'' timestamps
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Drop-in-and-forget replacement for activerecord

Mongoid Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Mongoid?
Mongoose
Let's face it, writing MongoDB validation, casting and business logic boilerplate is a drag. That's why we wrote Mongoose. Mongoose provides a straight-forward, schema-based solution to modeling your application data and includes built-in type casting, validation, query building, business logic hooks and more, out of the box.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
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Mongoid's Followers
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