Studio 3T is considered to be the most advanced GUI tool for MongoDB. There are Over 100,000 users including leading organizations like Atlassian, eBay, Nvidia, Microsoft, Intel, and Tesla. Studio 3T is a cross-platform tool and is available on all major platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS. They offer three paid plans that you can select depending on the size of your applications.
Key features of Studio 3T
- Studio 3T uniquely stands out from the rest because of its query feature. There are four ways to query and view data
- Ability to use SQL query language to Query MongoDB
- IntelliShell: Offers auto-completion feature that supports quite a lot of Javascript standard library functions, methods, operations, and collections.
- Visual Query Builder: Ability to drag-and-drop components to build queries.
- Flexibility in using both IntelliShell and Visual Query Builder side by side. If you are a newbie, this feature is perfect for you.
- The Aggregation Editor: Ability to break down complex queries into simple stages. This gives the opportunity to apply pipeline operators on each stage
Additional features in Pro / Enterprise
- Task Scheduler for repetitive MongoDB task automation.
- LDAP and Kerberos Authentication
- Easy to export queries into Python, PHP, Node.js, Java, C#, Ruby, and mongo shell language
- Supports data imports from other databases such as SQL, Sybase, and Oracle.
This is a great tool to use even if you don’t have any experience in database operations. However, having experience will be helpful to make the best use of it. This is the perfect tool to buy if you don’t have any problem with their pricing. Therefore, I put it in 2nd place behind Mongo compass.