How MCP could add value to MongoDB databases

 Analysts believe that all database vendors will soon start adding the Model Context Protocol to their offerings to aid developers with LLM app development.

MongoDB has added Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) to all its databases, including Atlas, to help developers accelerate software development and manage database administrative tasks.


MCP, which has seen a rise in popularity since its release in November last year, is an open protocol that allows AI agents inside applications to access external tools and data to complete a user request using a client-server mechanism, where the client is the AI agent or agentic interface and the server provides tools and data.





The rise in MCP’s popularity can be attributed, in turn, to the proliferation of agentic applications that can perform tasks without manual intervention, allowing enterprises and their teams to do more with limited resources.


In MongoDB’s case, developers can make use of the MongoDB MCP Server, which is currently in public preview, to integrate MCP-supported clients, such as Windsurf, Cursor, GitHub Copilot in VS Code, and Anthropic Claude, to its databases — Atlas, MongoDB Community Edition, and MongoDB Enterprise Advanced.


Post integration, developers would be able to use these MCP-supported clients to explore data inside databases or query data for analytics in natural language, the company wrote.


Google recently announced support for MCP integration for databases through its GenAI Toolbox for Databases. It also renamed its GenAI Toolbox for Databases to MCP Toolbox for Databases.


Moor Insights & Strategy Principal Analyst Jason Andersen said that most database vendors are likely to adopt MCP, just like they have retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for providing context to LLMs.


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