MongoDB VS LiteDB

Compare MongoDB vs LiteDB and see what are their differences.

LiteDB

LiteDB - A .NET NoSQL Document Store in a single data file (by litedb-org)
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MongoDB LiteDB
309 12
27,315 8,978
0.5% 0.7%
10.0 8.5
5 days ago 7 months ago
C++ C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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MongoDB

Posts with mentions or reviews of MongoDB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-28.

LiteDB

Posts with mentions or reviews of LiteDB. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-18.
  • SQLite vs LiteDB performance comparison for .NET MAUI apps
    2 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2025
    Recently I've been working on a personal project for developing an app using .NEt MAUI framekwork. I've been looking for options for local storage, and of course the two big contenders are LiteDB, and SQLite. Both are great projects with much to offer.
  • Local migrations for embedded SQLite in F#
    5 projects | dev.to | 2 Mar 2024
    Personally, I used to use LiteDB which is a NoSQL version which in v4 paired very nicely with F# thanks to Zaid's lovely LiteDB.FSharp library. Sadly, when v5 showed up, a lot of the F# niceties were lost given how the API was changed and v5 was not very F# friendly. You can still use it of course but you fall back to more unsafe F# code which is not ideal.
  • Generic DB with minimal boilerplate code
    1 project | /r/csharp | 22 May 2023
    Maybe you want LiteDB? I don't think you need to write SQL, you can interact with the API.
  • Yet another embedded DB (kind of)
    4 projects | /r/csharp | 10 May 2023
    Are you aware of LiteDB? It seems like your project is going for a very similar niche. Most people looking for this type of thing will probably go for the more mature and feature-rich solution (LiteDB). So if your project has some unique value proposition to distinguish it from LiteDB, you should elaborate on that.
  • How to introduce a queue for my API.
    4 projects | /r/csharp | 23 Jan 2023
    Please consider using the primary key to generate an unique value on the db side.
  • Unity MVVM
    5 projects | /r/gamedev | 27 Dec 2022
    LiteDB
  • LiteDB: A .NET embedded NoSQL database
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Nov 2022
    Before checking this out, people might want to take a look through the issues and pull requests of which there are 500+ and 50+ respectively [1]. I was really optimistic about this project and it was headed in a great direction, but it's not in a production ready state, and it seems that the main guy behind it has decided to move onto other things. It's been about a year since there was any significant activity.

    I just mention this because a lot of these little issues might only become more apparent after integrating the db into your project and so it can be a bit annoying. I ended up swapping to Linq2DB [1]. It's something, more or less, similar offering an ORM/LINQ type system as well as the ability to also use direct SQL if desired. But the neat thing is that it also uses a standardized API for the LINQ query language, so you can do things like swap from SQLite to PostgreSQL in one* line of code, so long as you're not using any provider specific extensions.

    [1] - https://github.com/mbdavid/LiteDB

    [2] - https://github.com/linq2db/linq2db

  • What sort of mature, open-source libraries do you feel Rust should have but currently lacks?
    22 projects | /r/rust | 1 Nov 2021
    A mature NoSQL embedded/flatfile database like LiteDB would be nice. There are some similar Rust libraries but they aren't very close to production ready and the API tends to not be too user friendly. I had trouble finding one of these for a small app I had to write recently.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MongoDB and LiteDB you can also consider the following projects:

Marten - .NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL

RavenDB - ACID Document Database

mongo-express - Web-based MongoDB admin interface, written with Node.js and Express

Realm Xamarin - Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for SQLite & ORMs

neon - Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, code-like database branching, and scale to zero.

DBreeze - C# .NET NOSQL ( key value, object store embedded TextSearch SemanticSearch Vector layer ) ACID multi-paradigm database management system.

Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video.
Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
getstream.io
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InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads
InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
www.influxdata.com
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