# What about supporting MongoDB Driver

**URL:** <https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/what-about-supporting-mongodb-driver/216>\
**Category:** Design Discussions\
**Created:** [October 31, 2018, 8:17am UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/what-about-supporting-mongodb-driver/216 "2018-10-31T08:17:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![ychtiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/df705f/32.png) [@ychtiger](https://forum.yugabyte.com/u/ychtiger)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2018, 8:17am UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/what-about-supporting-mongodb-driver/216/1 "2018-10-31T08:17:21Z")

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It’s easy for user to migrate from MongoDB to YugaByte.  
CosmosDB is a successful instance.

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**Author:** ![kannan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.yugabyte.com/kannan/32/18_2.png) [@kannan](https://forum.yugabyte.com/u/kannan)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2018, 3:03am UTC](https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/what-about-supporting-mongodb-driver/216/2 "2018-11-03T03:03:49Z")

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Hi @ychtiger

A MongoDB compatible driver is not in the current plans. Maybe sometime in the future 🙂

Our approach to support flexible schema is via native support for JSON data type in YCQL (our Cassandra compatible API). In addition to columns of primitive types, tables in YugaByte can have one or more JSONB columns as well.

> **[Data types in YSQL](https://docs.yugabyte.com/preview/develop/learn/data-types-ysql/)**
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> Learn about the data types in YSQL.

Is that something that’ll work for you?

regards,  
Kannan