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Dev tools · April 20, 2021

Mongita

Mongita is to MongoDB as SQLite is to SQL

Mongita launched on April 20, 2021 with 63 votes, #962 of 3,754 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

What it does

Mongita is a lightweight embedded document database that implements a commonly-used subset of the MongoDB/PyMongo interface. Use it when a MongoDB installation is too much or when SQLite is not the right choice.

"Mongita is to MongoDB as SQLite is to SQL". Contribute to scottrogowski/mongita development by creating an account on GitHub.

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