# Help Needed: MongoDB Connector in Ignition

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** database\
**Created:** [November 30, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/help-needed-mongodb-connector-in-ignition/82547 "2023-11-30T17:07:29Z")\
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Worth noting if you're not married to mongodb it will cause you issues with trying to do things you get built-in for free with other JBDC compliant databases like and you will need to code up the difference

> [@Power Chart & MongoDB](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/power-chart-mongodb/75871):
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> I've been storing time-series data using MongoDB connector. It's ok to "find" data with the MongoDB Binding and display it in a Time Series Chart. In my opinion, is clear that the Power Chart component is not capable to display this data yet. Would it be capable to do so in a near future? How the document fields should be to obtain the "same" behavior with SQL data?

Another one - I don't know if this one is still true but seems like the Older Ignition had some modules to work with historian but there are none around for 8.1

> [@MongoDb historian connector for ignition 8.1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/mongodb-historian-connector-for-ignition-8-1/52929):
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> Hello Is there any unofficial module that acts as MongoDB historian connector for Ignition 8.1? There are some old module for v7 but not 8.1

Just posting for your consideration if you're still in the planning phases of what database to use. If you're 100% going with Mongo you will probably have to do a little bit more legwork for certain things. If you still have a choice, I would probably go with one Ignition is already built-in and ready to work with - MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server etc.

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