Some time ago, I wrote a simple tool (command line and C++ library) for generating random data for the same purpose.
You basically specify a regular expression and the random strings on output match that regexp. Link: <a href="https://github.com/vrok/randodo" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/vrok/randodo</a>
Hi! Looks interesting. I usually use faker for this (<a href="https://github.com/joke2k/faker" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/joke2k/faker</a>). How does fake2db compare to it?
Nice utility. I submitted a pull request for FoundationDB SQL Layer <a href="https://github.com/emirozer/fake2db/pull/4" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/emirozer/fake2db/pull/4</a>
I'm starting to learn and use MongoDB quite a bit and this one thing I tend to struggle with is getting enough data into a DB to test and run queries on. I'll be happy to give this a go.
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