Nicely done. It would be cool to come up with some way to gather collection characteristics, so that some fieldnames and/or value sets could by dynamically autocompleted. Perhaps that's a revised idea for this weekend's project.
Re:MongoAdmin - admin interface for MongoDB I wrote using Dj...
by aroman on Sunday April 22, 2012 @09:56PM
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+100, I've been on the verge of writing something like this for months now. I dunno about Windows and OS X, but Linux doesn't have any native clients. I've been using https://github.com/agirbal/JMongoBrowser for my desktop mongodb query/admin/CRUD stuff, but it's horribly non-native, slow, a memory hog, and the interface is really lacking. But it does work and is pretty feature-rich.
MongoAdmin looks exactly like what I want, and I have a lot of experience with both django and bootstrap, so I'm especially happy that I'll be able to navigate my way below the surface without much issue.
Re:MongoAdmin - admin interface for MongoDB I wrote using Dj...
by madarco on Monday April 23, 2012 @02:42AM
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Nice work!
A feature that I'd like to see is to show the results in a table-like structure.
MongoDB collections doesn't have a defined structure, but usually the documents are all almost identical, and it would be useful to show them in a table.
Re:MongoAdmin - admin interface for MongoDB I wrote using Dj...
by mdda on Monday April 23, 2012 @09:56AM
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This would make a nice heuristic for autocompletion too.
Related would be an SQLalchemy database structure crawler that would suggest appropriate mongodb collection aggregation, based on the frequency of columns, keys, etc.
Re:MongoAdmin - admin interface for MongoDB I wrote using Dj...
by thomas-st on Sunday April 22, 2012 @07:43PM
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Haven't tested it with replica sets, it will probably not work. You're free to implement that though :)
I thought about making it a hosted service, but I wanted to release a minimal version and see what the feedback is, so I decided to make it open source instead of putting a credit card form on the page.
Re:MongoAdmin - admin interface for MongoDB I wrote using Dj...
by pixie_ on Sunday April 22, 2012 @08:45PM
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That's cool. I've been split for a long time between close souring my stuff or making it open. My gut wants the things I make to be free because I love getting other people involved, but my brain wants to keep things closed so I can make $$$. But really we all are decent programmers, finding work and making money isn't a problem. If I had tons of cash I'd still spend my day programming and the rest with family and friends. So what's the difference? yay open source. Let the people who haven't figured 'it' out yet kill themselves to make more money and then wonder why they still aren't happy ;) /end rant
Re:MongoAdmin - admin interface for MongoDB I wrote using Dj...
by ericingram on Sunday April 22, 2012 @10:46PM
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Why do people seem to assume that open source != $$$?
One of the biggest problems I have with open source is finding help fixing problems and just getting support in general. I'm happy to pay $$$ for software as a service, key word "service". Open source is a value add to SaaS, not the other way around!
Re:MongoAdmin - admin interface for MongoDB I wrote using Dj...
by bmelton on Monday April 23, 2012 @11:36AM
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I don't think he meant making money through supporting the service -- rather, you can make money for software as a service. Unrelated, that may or may not require offering support.
In addition, there are TONS of people making money off of open source. Hell, that's the business model of almost every web hosting service in the world. No reason you couldn't.
Nicely done. It would be cool to come up with some way to gather collection characteristics, so that some fieldnames and/or value sets could by dynamically autocompleted. Perhaps that's a revised idea for this weekend's project.
Recently I've been using (and am very happy with) RockMongo [1], a drop-in PHP solution that doesn't require its own database.
[1]: http://code.google.com/p/rock-php/wiki/rock_mongo
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/
MongoAdmin looks exactly like what I want, and I have a lot of experience with both django and bootstrap, so I'm especially happy that I'll be able to navigate my way below the surface without much issue.
Great work, thank you!
MongoDB collections doesn't have a defined structure, but usually the documents are all almost identical, and it would be useful to show them in a table.
Related would be an SQLalchemy database structure crawler that would suggest appropriate mongodb collection aggregation, based on the frequency of columns, keys, etc.
I thought about making it a hosted service, but I wanted to release a minimal version and see what the feedback is, so I decided to make it open source instead of putting a credit card form on the page.
One of the biggest problems I have with open source is finding help fixing problems and just getting support in general. I'm happy to pay $$$ for software as a service, key word "service". Open source is a value add to SaaS, not the other way around!
In addition, there are TONS of people making money off of open source. Hell, that's the business model of almost every web hosting service in the world. No reason you couldn't.