We use MongoDB Atlas to manage transactions and tenant payments for our application.
Chief Technology Officer at CPP-SYSTEM
Stable product with good scalability features
Pros and Cons
- "The product provides quick transaction service, high availability, and efficient scalability features."
- "The product's file storage documentation needs improvement."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The product provides quick transaction service, high availability, and efficient scalability features.
What needs improvement?
The product's file storage documentation needs improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using MongoDB Atlas for five years.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable platform. I rate its stability a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the product's scalability a nine out of ten.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We are using MySQL at the same time.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup requires knowledge of Linux systems. It takes ten to thirty minutes to complete, depending on the bandwidth of the server. It requires a team of three technicians to execute the process.
What other advice do I have?
MongoDB Atlas is a wonderful product. It is one of the top database platforms. I recommend it to companies planning to use the standard transaction maintenance.
I rate it a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Private Cloud
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Senior FullStack Developer/Engineer/Architect at Capitbrok
A highly scalable solution with an intuitive user interface
Pros and Cons
- "The solution has a very intuitive user interface."
- "The product does not have ORM."
What is our primary use case?
I use the solution for our document databases, cloud databases, e-commerce databases, and invoices.
What is most valuable?
The solution has a very intuitive user interface. It is very simple to use.
What needs improvement?
The product should introduce database mapping between SQL queries and document queries.
The product does not have ORM.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for the last eight years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the solution’s stability a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the solution’s scalability a ten out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was very straightforward.
What about the implementation team?
Deployment can take anywhere between one month to six months.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution is fairly priced.
What other advice do I have?
The product is cloud-based. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.
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Automation Architect at EvoluteIQ
A scalable unstructured database that requires its users to go for a straightforward setup phase
Pros and Cons
- "The initial setup of MongoDB Atlas is straightforward...It is a scalable solution."
- "I would like the solution to offer more integration capabilities since it is an area where the solution lacks."
What is our primary use case?
I use MongoDB Atlas to take care of my company's clients who are in industries like healthcare systems, finance, and other such areas.
What is most valuable?
The solution is valuable since it works as an unstructured database.
What needs improvement?
I would like the solution to offer more integration capabilities since it is an area where the solution lacks.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using MongoDB Atlas for a few months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a scalable solution.
Around 30,000 to 40,000 of my company's customers use MongoDB Atlas.
How are customer service and support?
I was not involved much with the technical support offered by MongoDB.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of MongoDB Atlas is straightforward unless you don't have to deal with any database-related stuff.
I completed the setup phase of the solution in a week since I have a background in handling databases.
For the deployment phase of the solution to be successful, one needs to have a bit of cloud-based knowledge.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I did not get into the solution's licensing costs since that is taken care of by the customers who want to use the product.
What other advice do I have?
I recommend the solution to those who plan to use it.
I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner
Stores large amounts of unstructured data and has an easy setup process
Pros and Cons
- "The product allows us to easily set up and store large amounts of unstructured data."
- "The product's data aggregation feature needs to work faster."
What is our primary use case?
We use MongoDB Atlas to store the data of our users.
What is most valuable?
The product allows us to easily set up and store large amounts of unstructured data.
What needs improvement?
The product's data aggregation feature needs to work faster.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using MongoDB Atlas for one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate the product's stability a nine out of ten. It is a good feature that is rarely seen in other relational databases.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the platform's scalability a nine out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup process is easy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It is an open-source platform.
What other advice do I have?
If you have unstructured data in large amounts, MongoDB Atlas is a good product to opt for. It distributes the data on servers and gives quick access to it.
I rate it a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Solution Architect & Group Lead at AppEnsure Inc.
An open-source product with good integration capabilities
Pros and Cons
- "I am impressed with the tool's integrations."
- "The tool's implementation should be made easier."
What is most valuable?
I am impressed with the tool's integrations.
What needs improvement?
The tool's implementation should be made easier.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with the product for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The solution is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The tool is scalable. My company has more than 40 users for the solution.
How are customer service and support?
We had mailed tech support whenever we encountered issues and they had responded to us.
What about the implementation team?
The solution's deployment can be done in-house.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The tool is free since it's an open-source product.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate the product an eight out of ten.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Subject Matter Expert at Chegg
Quick and easy to deploy
Pros and Cons
- "The initial setup is straightforward."
- "I would like to have better performance for user experience with the solution."
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution to build applications online.
What needs improvement?
I would like to have better performance for user experience with the solution.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for one and a half years.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward.
What other advice do I have?
I give the solution an eight out of ten.
We have eight to ten people using the solution in our organization.
I recommend the solution. There are no problems with MongoDB Atlas
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Senior Software Engineer at Axcess Financial
It is nice because our developers create tables whenever they need to sync data
Pros and Cons
- "It is nice because our developers create tables whenever they need to sync data."
- "We had some bad trainers when we first came onboard and would rate them fairly low. They did not seem staffed properly to fulfill the training services that they offered."
What is our primary use case?
We use it for all of our temporary data, anything which is not warehoused.
It works with AWS Lamda and EC2.
How has it helped my organization?
It is nice because our developers create tables whenever they need to sync data. There are allocations nor DBAs. It is just use it as you need it.
What is most valuable?
- Autoscaling
- No overhead
- No maintenance
What needs improvement?
We had some bad trainers when we first came onboard and would rate them fairly low. They did not seem staffed properly to fulfill the training services that they offered.
For how long have I used the solution?
One to three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is very stable. It has been running without issues.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have about 2000 customers a day.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is good. We originally chose it over DynamoDB because of the pricing.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We also looked at DynamoDB from Amazon. However, it didn't have the features that we wanted from MongoDB.
We chose MongoDB based on its pricing and features.
What other advice do I have?
I have been happy with the service. Everything is good. Though, nothing stands out to me as exceptional.
I would encourage someone to look at DynamoDB, even though I am fine with MongoDB. If you are in a fully integrated into the AWS environment, you might want to stick with Amazon Web Services rather than a third-party.
We use it as a service, so we don't configure anything.
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
Technical Director for Innovation Lab at Smile
You can start quickly on projects which allow you to store many things
Pros and Cons
- "You can start quickly on projects which allow you to store many things."
- "I would like a more comprehensive dashboard."
- "Going forward, we would like to have pure AWS Cloud (native) storage instead regular storage on the AWS integration side."
What is our primary use case?
Any business types where we need instructional data.
How has it helped my organization?
In a previous company where I worked, we were able to use MongoDB as a pure data storage using the block storage mechanism for our clients.
What is most valuable?
You can start quickly on projects which allow you to store many things.
What needs improvement?
I would like a more comprehensive dashboard. The UI can be difficult to understand.
Going forward, we would like to have pure AWS Cloud (native) storage instead regular storage on the AWS integration side.
For how long have I used the solution?
One to three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is very good.
In my previous company, we had a lot of data coming in every day, and the product remained stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have been able to scale from gigabytes to terabytes easily.
How is customer service and technical support?
I have never used technical support.
How was the initial setup?
The integration and configuration of MongoDB in the AWS environment is quite good.
What was our ROI?
In my previous company, the product allowed use to build a database in a highly regulated environment with the ability to get distributed storage. We used MongoDB as a distributed storage to set up this environment for a critical business application with millions of dollars.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
My advice is make developers understand NoSQL databases. For people coming from the SQL world, this is a new way to develop applications and that is the point to focus on. In the NoSQL world, MongoDB is a product that has a good awareness and has proven to be very good.
Our clients also evaluate Cassandra or other key value storage vendors. Its depends on what they want to do exactly. MongoDB is somewhere in the middle between pure key value and something like Cassandra, which is designed for bigger deployments.
MongoDB is fortunately well known now in the development community and has a good framework for languages, which is why our clients chose the product.
What other advice do I have?
We are always integrating this product with our business applications because it is a database. Without our applications, the product doesn't make sense. The integration is quite straightforward, because of the consistences within MongoDB, you can find where to connect it.
I have used both the AWS and the on-premise versions. The AWS integration allows you to go faster in terms of deployment and the tooling in the cloud also allows you to go faster.
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner.
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