MongoDB + gRPC = MongoRPC

A high-performance gRPC proxy for MongoDB, enabling seamless database access from any platform.

• ✅ Full MongoDB Type Support - ObjectId, Decimal128, GeoPoint, UUID, Regex, and more
• ✅ gRPC API - High-performance, strongly-typed API with streaming support
• ✅ Aggregation Pipelines - Full MongoDB aggregation framework support
• ✅ Transactions - ACID transaction support
• ✅ Change Streams - Real-time data change notifications
• ✅ Modern Go - Built with Go 1.22+, mongo-driver v2, and structured logging

• Go 1.22+
• MongoDB 6.0+
• buf (for proto generation)

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/mongorpc/mongorpc.git
cd mongorpc

# Install dependencies
go mod download

# Build the server
go build -o bin/mongorpc ./cmd/server

# Start MongoDB (if not running)
docker run -d -p 27017:27017 --name mongodb mongo:7.0

# Run MongoRPC server
./bin/mongorpc --address localhost:50051 --mongodb-uri mongodb://localhost:27017

• Web/JavaScript: mongorpc-js
• Dart/Flutter: mongorpc-dart

const client = new MongoRPC("http://localhost:50051");

const document = await client
  .database("sample_mflix")
  .collection("movies")
  .document("573a13b0f29313caabd35231")
  .get();

var client = await mongorpc("localhost", port: 50051);
var collection = client.database("sample_mflix").collection("movies");

var documents = await collection
    .documents()
    .limit(10)
    .sort(by: "title")
    .get();

mongorpc/
├── cmd/server/           # Server entry point
├── gen/                  # Generated protobuf/gRPC code
├── internal/
│   ├── api/mongorpc/    # gRPC service implementations
│   ├── config/          # Configuration management
│   └── repository/      # Data access layer
│       └── mongodb/     # MongoDB client
├── proto/               # Protocol buffer definitions
│   └── mongorpc/v1/     # v1 API protos
├── buf.yaml             # Buf configuration
└── buf.gen.yaml         # Code generation config

buf generate proto

go build -o bin/mongorpc ./cmd/server

# List services
grpcurl -plaintext localhost:50051 list

# Create a document
grpcurl -plaintext -d '{
  "database": "test",
  "collection": "users",
  "document": {
    "fields": {
      "name": {"string_value": "Alice"},
      "age": {"int32_value": 30}
    }
  }
}' localhost:50051 mongorpc.v1.MongoRPC/CreateDocument

• GetDocument - Get a single document by ID
• ListDocuments - List documents with filtering and pagination
• CreateDocument - Create a new document
• UpdateDocument - Update an existing document
• DeleteDocument - Delete a document
• BatchGetDocuments - Get multiple documents (streaming)

• RunQuery - Execute queries with streaming results
• Aggregate - Run aggregation pipelines
• CountDocuments - Count matching documents
• Distinct - Get distinct field values

• BeginTransaction - Start a new transaction
• CommitTransaction - Commit a transaction
• AbortTransaction - Abort a transaction

• Watch - Watch collection for changes
• WatchDatabase - Watch database for changes

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Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0