If you've built enough apps with MongoDB, you've probably wished for a GUI that actually understands your Mongoose configuration and schemas — one that can autocomplete field names, write queries that behave the same way your models do, and even help you build dashboards without leaving your codebase.

In 2023, we announced that we were working on a Mongoose integration for DataStax's JSON API project, then called stargate-mongoose, meaning you could use Mongoose to read from and write to Apache Cassandra.

Mongoose 8.4.0 was released on May 17, 2024 and includes several noteworthy new features.

Retrieval augmented generation, or RAG for short, is injects additional context into an LLM prompt in order to get better results.

With vector databases, retrieval augmented generation is the most talked about use case, but far from the only one.

Mongoose 8 was released on October 31, 2023.

Retrieval augmented generation, or RAG for short, is a technique that injects additional relevant context into an LLM prompt in order to get better results.

Vector databases are a hot topic right now, and with good reason.