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MongoLab
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MongoLab

#2in Document Databases
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What is MongoLab?

mLab is the largest cloud MongoDB service in the world, hosting over a half million deployments on AWS, Azure, and Google.

MongoLab is a tool in the Document Databases category of a tech stack.

Key Features

On-demand provisioning on the major clouds. Seamless, zero-downtime scaling and high availability via auto-failover on production-ready plansUnlimited backups on Dedicated plansfree daily backup on other plans. Free and easy backup restoresWeb GUI for editing documents, running queries (including saved searches), and viewing results in tabular formatDedicated plans support encryption-at-rest, include SSL for free, and allow for custom firewalls as well as VPC peering

MongoLab Pros & Cons

Pros of MongoLab

  • ✓Development free tier
  • ✓Easy setup
  • ✓Scalable mongo hosting
  • ✓Heroku plugin
  • ✓REST API
  • ✓Geospatial support
  • ✓High availability
  • ✓Premium support
  • ✓Replication and backups
  • ✓Multi-cloud

Cons of MongoLab

  • ✗Lab bought by MongoDB. Being replaced by Atlas

MongoLab Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to MongoLab?

MongoDB Atlas

MongoDB Atlas

MongoDB Atlas is a global cloud database service built and run by the team behind MongoDB. Enjoy the flexibility and scalability of a document database, with the ease and automation of a fully managed service on your preferred cloud.

Compose

Compose

Compose makes it easy to spin up multiple open source databases with just one click. Deploy MongoDB for production, take Redis out for a performance test drive, or spin up RethinkDB in development before rolling it out to production.

ScaleGrid

ScaleGrid

ScaleGrid is a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution for MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, and PostgreSQL on AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, VMware and OpenStack. Automate your database operations in the cloud so you can get back to product.

ObjectRocket

ObjectRocket

Fast, scalable, and reliably-managed Mongo DB, Redis, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB and TimescaleDB. An easy to use DBaaS (database as a service) platform on private or public cloud. Complete DB Management & Administration.

DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB

DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB

It is a fully managed, database as a service (DBaaS). Build scalable high-performance apps using MongoDB cloud service. It handles the provisioning, scaling, updates, backups, and security of your MongoDB clusters, so you can focus on your apps.

MongoLab Integrations

cloudControl, Rackspace Cloud Servers, AppHarbor, AppFog, Joyent Cloud and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with MongoLab. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with MongoLab.

cloudControl
cloudControl
Rackspace Cloud Servers
Rackspace Cloud Servers
AppHarbor
AppHarbor
AppFog
AppFog
Joyent Cloud
Joyent Cloud
Nodejitsu
Nodejitsu
Xplenty
Xplenty
Pivotal Web Services (PWS)
Pivotal Web Services (PWS)
Humongous.io
Humongous.io
Heroku
Heroku
Heroku
Heroku
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure

MongoLab Discussions

Discover why developers choose MongoLab. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

Malthe Jørgensen
Malthe Jørgensen

CTO at Peergrade

Apr 2, 2019

Needs adviceonPostgreSQLPostgreSQLDjangoDjangoGraphQLGraphQL

We recently switched from MongoDB and the Python library MongoEngine to PostgreSQL and Django in order to:

  • Better leverage @{GraphQL}|tool:3820| (using the @{Graphene}|tool:4611| library)
  • Allow us to use the autogenerated Django admin interface
  • Allow better performance due to the way some of our pages present data
  • Give us more a mature stack in the form of Django replacing MongoEngine, which we had some issues with in the past.

MongoDB was hosted on mlab, and we now host Postgres on Amazon RDS .

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