Today, Appsmith ships with a Dockerized MongoDB container when I self-host. Instead of MongoDB, I’d like to connect Appsmith to Microsoft Cosmos DB (MongoDB API) and use a managed service instead of managing MongoDB myself.
Is that possible?
In theory, it could work but we can’t guarantee long-term compatibility because Cosmos DB feature set might not be aligned to MongoDB’s. Hence, we won’t officially recommend it.
Having said that, in case you don’t want to manage databases (who does?), you can either:
- Use our cloud hosted version https://app.appsmith.com . In this case, you are transferring your problems of data management to us.
- Use MongoDB cloud. Here you get a hosted MongoDB instance with all the bells & whistles around backup, restore etc. You can host it in the same region as your AWS servers as well to minimize latency.