What is the most mature MongoDB driver for C#?

Question

So, there are

• mongodb-csharp
• simple-mongodb
• NoRM

as C# drivers for MongoDB available.

Which one of them is the most m

Answer 1

A couple reasons to avoid the mongodb-csharp driver:

1. It doesn't support "or" logic.
2. It doesn't seem to support geospatial queries, at least we were not able to get it working.

Answer 2

There is a performance issue in typed builders (Update<>, Query<>) of official 10gen C# driver. See How to speed up typed builders in 10gen official MongoDB C# driver?

Answer 3

You should use MongoDB.Driver from this nuget package.

You can view the full tutorials for the MongoC# example looking at this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x0-vHHHpv8

Answer 4

For all curious out there. The best combination at this point seems to be official 10gen C# driver combined with fluent-mongo for Linq support:

https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-csharp-driver

https://github.com/craiggwilson/fluent-mongo

Update: with release 1.4 of official C# driver, there'll be no need in fluent-mongo anymore.

Answer 5

I'd go with Sam Corder’s mongodb-csharp. Also checkout this article.

Answer 6

Since this question was answered 10gen have released an official MongoDB C# driver, and although it isn't the most mature C# driver in terms of age, with 10gen behind it it may end up as the most up to date.

It is more low level than the mongodb-csharp driver (no Linq support at the moment) but we haven't found that to be a problem. We moved to the official driver from mongodb-csharp recently on a project (that isn't in production yet) for the following reasons:

• Replica Set support in an official release
• SafeMode allows you to specify how many servers a write must be replicated to
• The driver handles connecting/disconnecting to the database
• We're hoping that as an official driver, it will have more developer support