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Markus Dulghier
Markus Dulghier

Reputation: 1580

What is the most mature MongoDB driver for C#?

So, there are

as C# drivers for MongoDB available.

Which one of them is the most mature and stable one? Why would you choose one over the other two?

Are they production ready?

Upvotes: 26

Views: 8953

Answers (7)

Sridhar Chinta
Sridhar Chinta

Reputation: 11

You should use MongoDB.Driver from this nuget package.

You can view the full tutorials for the MongoC# example looking at this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x0-vHHHpv8

Upvotes: 1

Anton Krupnov
Anton Krupnov

Reputation: 51

There is a performance issue in typed builders (Update<>, Query<>) of official 10gen C# driver. See How to speed up typed builders in 10gen official MongoDB C# driver?

Upvotes: 0

Kostassoid
Kostassoid

Reputation: 1898

For all curious out there. The best combination at this point seems to be official 10gen C# driver combined with fluent-mongo for Linq support:

https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-csharp-driver

https://github.com/craiggwilson/fluent-mongo

Update: with release 1.4 of official C# driver, there'll be no need in fluent-mongo anymore.

Upvotes: 6

Justin
Justin

Reputation: 18186

A couple reasons to avoid the mongodb-csharp driver:

  1. It doesn't support "or" logic.
  2. It doesn't seem to support geospatial queries, at least we were not able to get it working.

Upvotes: 0

Martin Owen
Martin Owen

Reputation: 5271

Since this question was answered 10gen have released an official MongoDB C# driver, and although it isn't the most mature C# driver in terms of age, with 10gen behind it it may end up as the most up to date.

It is more low level than the mongodb-csharp driver (no Linq support at the moment) but we haven't found that to be a problem. We moved to the official driver from mongodb-csharp recently on a project (that isn't in production yet) for the following reasons:

  • Replica Set support in an official release
  • SafeMode allows you to specify how many servers a write must be replicated to
  • The driver handles connecting/disconnecting to the database
  • We're hoping that as an official driver, it will have more developer support

Upvotes: 21

Craig Wilson
Craig Wilson

Reputation: 12624

The mongodb-csharp driver is about to make a huge push regarding support for typedcollections which will include full Linq support. I think you'll find that it is easy to work.

The other 2 projects are also steaming ahead. If you want .NET 4.0 support, simple-mongodb would be your best bet.

NoRM has a whole bunch of committers who are all great coders, so no problem with it except it doesn't have an official release.

Upvotes: 20

Kamran Khan
Kamran Khan

Reputation: 9986

I'd go with Sam Corder’s mongodb-csharp. Also checkout this article.

Upvotes: 8

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