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DbGate vs MongoDB Compass: catalog facts
DbGate	MongoDB Compass
Freemium DbGate is GPL-3.0 licensed and free to use for any purpose. A few connectors, including…	Free Free to download and use, published by MongoDB under its own source-available licence…
Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted	Windows, macOS, Linux
Covers SQL and NoSQL databases, including MongoDB, Redis and Cassandra, in one client Schema compare and synchronisation, ER diagrams and a visual query designer	Aggregation pipeline builder shows the result of each stage as you build it Explain plans make it obvious whether a query is using an index
A handful of connectors are marked premium and are not in the free build Electron-based, so it is heavier than a native client	Not open source under an OSI-approved licence despite the public repository MongoDB only; it will not connect to anything else
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Downloadable app
Open source	Closed source
License: GPL-3.0	License not stated
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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