In continuation to series of tutorials on Spring Boot with MongoDB, we have already discussed various examples using MongoRepository interface. Now in this article we are going to discuss a different way of accessing data from MongoDB. This is nothing but MongoTemplate. MongoTemplate is defined by Spring Data MongoDB, used to perform DB operations without using any repository interface. If you are reading this article in context of Spring Boot, you must have heard about the term JDBCTemplate. Like JDBCTemplate, MongoTemplate is a class which provides us different handy methods to work on various DB operations. However, we generally use it to retrieve data from MongoDB using different Criteria queries. Hence, our topic here is to discuss is 'MongoTemplate Spring Boot