MongoDB Atlas Reviews

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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.

You can start quickly on projects which allow you to store many things.

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.

The stability is very good.

In my previous company, we had a lot of data coming in every day, and the product remained stable.

We have been able to scale from gigabytes to terabytes easily.

I have never used technical support.

The integration and configuration of MongoDB in the AWS environment is quite good.

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.

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.

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.

We use it for patient data.

Our databases used to be in-house. Now, they are in the cloud with MongoDB and everything is much easier.

The speed of it is the most valuable feature.

I would like a better dashboard. It could be made a bit more user friendly. 

We put a large amount of stress on it, and it is able to handle this all the time.

It is very scalable. We have 10,000 employees.

We receive great customer service.

Our purchasing experience on the AWS Marketplace was great. We chose to go through the AWS Marketplace as a small team; my team selected it, and we consist of three people.

The pricing and licensing is great.

We also looked at Cassandra, but we did not find it easy to use.

This product was selected because it was easier to use and more user-friendly.

I would recommend MongoDB.

The integration and configuration of the product on the AWS environment is fine.

We use the AWS version of this product.

We also use WebEx, and it works well.

For MongoDB as a service, there are two distinct ways to use it: as a personal user, where one can register on Atlas and experiment with its features; and as a professional, where one can use it for backup management, environment management, and creating figures. Additionally, MongoDB Atlas has features such as data lake capability, the ability to create charts from queries without using other BI tools, and Apache Lucene for text search. I have experimented with these features, but I have not used them professionally. The most relevant use for me is managing backups. Atlas MongoDB also allows for making REST calls and creating applications with triggers, although I have not used it for programming applications much.

It has a good easy to use gui and the ability to do most of the management operations under automation

The most useful feature is the management of the backup. I use a managed tool offered by MongoDB to manage an on-prem environment and compare it with the SaaS service and software. The solution is very ready-to-use and it is much simpler to manage backups, which cuts down on the amount of work and stress. However, at least two other features should be mentioned in the current versions. Search integrated with Lucene and the possibility of storing vector data. 

There are some Mongo new features that could be useful for the customers I work with, which are related to migration from on-prem to the cloud. MongoDB is currently working on these features. With the latest version of Mongo, there are new tools that help with migrating. However, currently, only Mongo can use these new features. Soon these migration tools should be released to the public and could really assist with migration also from SQL on-prem environment to Atlas.

I have been using the solution for four years.

The solution is very stable.

I give the scalability a nine out of ten. MongoDB is very easy to scale and with Atlas, it is possible with a few clicks and configurations.

The technical support team is skilled, prepared, and really helpful.

Positive

The initial setup is straightforward. Only one person is required for deployment.

For me, MongoDB Atlas could be expensive as every cloud service because I don't have many other terms of comparison, but I think it is not so expensive for customers. In the end, they may be able to save money rather than buy it on-premise however, on-premise, they do not have access to all the features that Atlas exposes. The costs are similar to having a cloud provider and if we look at the short-term, there is a real saving of money investing in their service instead of making it on-prem in the same scenario.

I give the solution an eight out of ten. I am not familiar with other SQL databases on the cloud. I know that Atlas is quite stable and the service is good, providing customers with all the necessary features to use it as a service. MongoDB Atlas is integrated and available on Google, AWS, and Azure.

I advise people to take advantage of the free courses from MongoDB University that are very well done to gain a general knowledge of MongoDB. Therefore, if someone has no experience with Mongo, they can get great preparation for the MongoDB University course without spending any money.

There are many scenarios that MongoDB can fit into, like where there is a fluid schema and no transaction management.

This solution is deployed on a cloud and AWS is the provider.

It's flexible. We don't need to have a solid upstream availability failover, and everything is seamless in Atlas. They do all the replication, and all that is probably happening behind the scenes. The pricing isn't that high compared to any of the IBM products.

The biggest challenge we all have is an application layer level. One node is sitting in the APAC region, another node is sitting in the US and UK region. The seamless replication has to be lightning fast, but we haven't tested the scalability yet.

There's no straight answer for any of the database providers in that particular space. We don't have a failover, but when it comes to the RPA recovery point objective and RTO, we have to test it.

Atlas should think about a provision in the form of a commitment. You can ask for a longer commitment. Database is one thing. Once I build an application, if it goes to production, it's going to be there for the next 10 years minimum. In that way, somebody's giving you a commitment for five years, so you can give them a huge discount. If somebody's giving a two year commitment, you can give them a better discount. 

I've been using this solution for about six months. 

It's stable.

I haven't used this solution long enough to gauge the scalability. 

We haven't had any issues so far.

It's straightforward and seamless. Setting up takes about 35 minutes, but it could be as little as 20 minutes. We never had a concern with installation. Maybe when you're doing a data migration, that could be a different story altogether.

In development, we have about 15 users. The number of users could go up to 100,000 people because it's an application that we're building. We're building the system for 100,000 concurrent users.

We have the possibility of growing every year on year, probably 30%. We are going to test it to see if we can host multiple tenants in this single DB and if it will be scalable.

We pay for the license on a monthly basis. It's not cheap or expensive. For smaller companies, it's definitely expensive.

I would rate this solution 8 out of 10.

I would recommend this solution to those who want to start using it.

The application we are working on is built on MongoDB.

MongoDB is a NoSQL tool. We can easily add fields. It provides more flexibility to store data. It is flexible to changes. I have not encountered any performance issues.

Searching and browsing through the collection must be made easier.

I have been using the solution for two years.

The product has been stable so far.

The installation was easy. The deployment took an hour. One person is enough to deploy the tool. It does not require much maintenance.

I am using the free version of the solution.

I have used DynamoDB before. MongoDB’s free version is quite good for our use cases. DynamoDB is expensive.

MongoDB is a very good tool for first-time users. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

I use the solution for Web Application creation.

The solution is easily scalable and manageable. Tools can be easily added to the solution.

Customer support needs improvement knowledge-wise.

I have been using the solution for two years.

It is a stable solution. I rate the stability a ten out of ten.

It is a scalable solution. I rate it ten out of ten.

I rate the support an eight out of ten.

The initial setup is straightforward. The deployment takes three hours. I rate the initial setup a ten out of ten.

I have seen a 10% return on investment.

The solution is fairly priced. I rate the pricing a seven out of ten. 

I rate the overall solution an eight out of ten.

We store a lot of raw data in MongoDB and all our relational data is in RDS Aurora. We are still evaluating Aurora, however, primarily, most raw data is in MariaDB.

The solution is easy. It's just not the solution for every use case, however, it's very nice if you don't have structured data or you don't really worry about the structure all the time.

The integration capabilities are fine.

The dashboards are good.

The product is user-friendly.

The solution can scale. 

We don't have any issues with the solution at this time. It does what we need it to do. 

If it could be cheaper, that would make us happy.

I've used the solution for over five years. 

We don't have any problems with it. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash and freeze. 

The solution is scalable. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so.

We are a processing engine for financial transactions, therefore, we don't have a lot of users per se, however, we've got a lot of customers out there that use the functionality, the payment functionality that uses the system. While we don't have a user frontend all the time interacting with our database, it's basically systems talking to your database.

We've never had to deal with technical support yet, therefore, I can't speak to how helpful or responsive they might be.

Currently, I'm using Spring Boot on top of it and that's all I'm really worried about.

The initial setup is very simple and straightforward. It's not overly complex or difficult. You just create the database from the user's perspective, it's as easy as that. With AWS, it's not an issue anymore in terms of implementation. 

We have quite a big team of over 100 people and we're able to handle deployment and maintenance. 

We have a DevOps team that was able to handle the installation. 

You do get what you pay for. The solution isn't overly expensive. 

We don't have any subscriptions that I know of. We are paying for document DB, which is a clone of MongoDB. That's part of our whole solution.

Before choosing this solution we did not evaluate other options. 

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. It's brilliant for what we are using it for.

I'd recommend the solution to others.

MongoDB can be used for many things. It's a document store, so you can add whatever collection you need to it. We use it for an application that we've built.

My team is not using it at this time, although other teams in the company may be.

The cloud-based nature of this solution makes it flexible and scalable. I like the fact that you can make the deployment bigger, as needed.

Not having to maintain it yourself is good.

Querying a dataset is not very intuitive, so I think that it can be improved.

I have been using MongoDB Atlas for approximately two years, although I am not using it for my current project.

This is a stable product and we plan to continue using it.

This is a very scalable product. There are approximately five users.

I have not had experience with technical support.

Prior to this solution, we have used PostgreSQL, which is a database. As a document store, MongoDB is fine.

You don't have to maintain it yourself.

We pay for licensing on a monthly basis and we are fine with the cost.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.