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MongoDB Compass vs RESTHeart: What are the differences?
Developers describe MongoDB Compass as "A GUI for MongoDB". Visually explore your data. Run ad hoc queries in seconds. Interact with your data with full CRUD functionality. View and optimize your query performance. On the other hand, RESTHeart is detailed as "Open source Web API server for MongoDB database". It connects to MongoDB and opens data to the Web. Clients such as mobile and javascript apps can use the database via a simple RESTful API.
MongoDB Compass and RESTHeart can be primarily classified as "Database" tools.
Some of the features offered by MongoDB Compass are:
- built-in schema visualization
- immediate insight into server status and query performance
- View utilization and manage your indexes
On the other hand, RESTHeart provides the following key features:
- Setup in minutes the lightweight and fast microservice with support for MongoDB and AWS DocumentDB
- Available also as a Docker image
- Built on standards, like HTTP, JSON, REST, JSON and JSON Schema
RESTHeart is an open source tool with 563 GitHub stars and 138 GitHub forks. Here's a link to RESTHeart's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of MongoDB Compass
Pros of RESTHeart
- RESTHeart is ready-to-use and saves coding the backend2