MongoDB: How to represent a schema diagram in a thesis?

Question

I am currently writing a thesis and need to display the schema of my MongoDB in a diagram. I have found no resources about diagrams for document-based databases.

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Answer 1

There is a tool doing diagrams for MongoDb, is called DbSchema. It discovers the schema by scanning data from db. I would also suggest trying two features from them :

• virtual relations which allow exploring data from different collections in the same time. A kind of JOIN between different collections.
• HTML documentation, we use it in presentations as well - the comments are in mouse-over ( diarams are saved as vector images ).