mongo-ruby-driver
The Official MongoDB Ruby Driver (by mongodb)
mysql2
A modern, simple and very fast Mysql library for Ruby - binding to libmysql (by brianmario)
| mongo-ruby-driver | mysql2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 4 | |
| 1,436 | 2,279 | |
| 0.1% | 0.2% | |
| 7.6 | 6.2 | |
| 14 days ago | 2 months ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
mongo-ruby-driver
Posts with mentions or reviews of mongo-ruby-driver. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-11-05.
- Guide to Seamless Data Security in Rails With Mongoid’s Automatic Encryption
The MongoDB Ruby Driver has supported CSFLE since v2.12, but Ruby on Rails developers don’t work with the driver directly—they use Mongoid.
- Why Use MongoDB with Ruby
The MongoDB Ruby Driver is hosted at RubyGems, or if you'd like to explore the source code it can be found on GitHub.
- MongoDB slow queries in Ruby, does using a single key solve it?
In regards to mongoid, no, I'm not using this, I am using the official MongoDB driver for Ruby (https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-ruby-driver/)
mysql2
Posts with mentions or reviews of mysql2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.
- Can,t install MySQL2 gem
- Need help with installing mysql2 gem in rails application running on windows 11
Thanks for your suggestion. AFAIR, i tried installing the gem 'activerecord-trilogy-adapter' but without the git path . Currently, I have successfully installed mysql2 on Windows by following the steps outlined in the following GitHub issue: https://github.com/brianmario/mysql2/issues/1151.
- Handling File Uploads with NestJS and MySQL
In the above command, you’ve installed the TypeORM and mysql2 modules: they will enable you to connect your application to a MySQL database and perform operations on it.
- Interact with Mysql Server using mysql2 gem [Part 1] - Select operations
We will be using mysql2 gem for our purpose. Let's first create a service to connect with external mysql server.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mongo-ruby-driver and mysql2 you can also consider the following projects:
moped - A MongoDB driver for Ruby
ruby-pg
couchbase-ruby-client - Couchbase Ruby Client Library
TinyTDS - TinyTDS - Simple and fast FreeTDS bindings for Ruby using DB-Library.
redis-rb - A Ruby client library for Redis
SQLite3 - Ruby bindings for the SQLite3 embedded database