event-driven-io/Pongo

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1376 stars · 41 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Pongo is a TypeScript library that provides a MongoDB-compatible document API backed by PostgreSQL, offering strong consistency guarantees. It supports both a typed Pongo client and a MongoDB-compliant shim so existing Mongo-style code can run on Postgres.

Use cases

• use MongoDB syntax but store data in PostgreSQL
• migrate a Node.js app from MongoDB to Postgres without rewriting queries
• get strong consistency guarantees for document storage
• store JSON documents in Postgres with typed collections
• replace MongoDB with an existing Postgres infrastructure

When to choose

• you want Mongo-like developer experience with PostgreSQL reliability
• your team already runs Postgres and wants document-style queries
• you need strong consistency that MongoDB deployments may not provide
• you want TypeScript-typed document collections

When to avoid

• you need MongoDB-specific features like replica sets, sharding, or aggregation pipelines beyond the supported subset
• you want a pure document database without operating Postgres
• your project is not on Node.js/TypeScript

Facets

library · maturity active

database-driver orm database databases backend developer-tools mongodb-compatible postgres document-database strong-consistency mongo-shim nodejs typescript postgresql

Member repositories

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="event-driven-io/Pongo")