Thumbor is a smart imaging service. It enables on-demand crop, resizing and flipping of images. https://github.com/globocom/thumbor/wiki MongoDB is a document oriented NoSQL database http://www.mongodb.org/ This plugin for Thumbor is a loader that can reach images from a mongodb collection based on its Object(_id) in the configuration use: LOADER = 'thumbor_mongodb.loader' MONGO_LOADER_CNX_STRING = 'mongodb://mongodbserver01,mongodbserver02:27017' MONGO_LOADER_SERVER_DB = 'thumbor' MONGO_LOADER_SERVER_COLLECTION = 'images' MONGO_LOADER_DOC_FIELD = 'content' Each image is stored in a document (max 16Mo). Data is stored in a field (default: 'content') as a base64 encoded string. thumbor URL become : http://thumbor-server/unsafe/10x10/smart/4e0f2d4b4ee517690c000000 as '4e0f2d4b4ee517690c000000' is a valid _id of a document in the collection. you can install it with : pip install thumbor_mongodb To Test it you nead to install thumbor mongodb and pyvows : make test