What is the different between MongoDB plugins for Play framework2?

Question

I'm starting to learn MongoDB, integrated with Play framework 2. I goggled about how to integrate it with Play framework2 and finally found many plugins available:

• MongoDB Jackson Mapper
• Jongo
• Play2 Morphia plugin

I'm quite confused which one should be used in order to organize my MongoDB. I was trying to search about how different between them, however, cannot find any document. So, If anyone has some experience about them, could you please share you opinion or explain the most different between them?

Answer 1

Jongo is an API to query in Java as in MongoDB Shell and uses Jackson to map documents to POJOs. This API is a tiny layer over the official mongodb-java-driver

ReactiveMongo is a Scala driver (mongodb-java-driver is not used) created by the play framework team to query MongoDB in a real reactive approach.

Both Jongo and ReactiveMongo projects have a play plugin :

Play-jongo : https://github.com/alexanderjarvis/play-jongo

Play-ReactiveMongo : https://github.com/ReactiveMongo/Play-ReactiveMongo

Well so, if you are looking for an easy way to query MongoDB you can use Jongo, if you are looking for a play-style reactive approach, you can use ReactiveMongo but IHMO you should test both and use the one you are more confortable with.