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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 MongoDB Hosting category of a tech stack.

Who uses MongoLab?

Companies
135 companies reportedly use MongoLab in their tech stacks, including Lyft, Accenture, and Rocket.Chat.

Developers
294 developers on StackShare have stated that they use MongoLab.

MongoLab Integrations

Amazon EC2, Heroku, Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, and Rackspace Cloud Servers are some of the popular tools that integrate with MongoLab. Here's a list of all 14 tools that integrate with MongoLab.
Pros of MongoLab
61
Development free tier
46
Easy setup
38
Scalable mongo hosting
25
Heroku plugin
14
REST API
9
High availability
9
Geospatial support
5
Replication and backups
5
Premium support
2
Multi-cloud
1
Largest and most experienced
1
Azure Add-on

MongoLab's Features

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

MongoLab Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to MongoLab?
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.
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.
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.
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions.
See all alternatives

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