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MongoDB Compass vs DbGate: catalog facts
MongoDB Compass	DbGate
Free Free to download and use, published by MongoDB under its own source-available licence…	Freemium DbGate is GPL-3.0 licensed and free to use for any purpose. A few connectors, including…
Windows, macOS, Linux	Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted
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	Covers SQL and NoSQL databases, including MongoDB, Redis and Cassandra, in one client Schema compare and synchronisation, ER diagrams and a visual query designer
Not open source under an OSI-approved licence despite the public repository MongoDB only; it will not connect to anything else	A handful of connectors are marked premium and are not in the free build Electron-based, so it is heavier than a native client
Downloadable app	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL-3.0
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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