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    Amazon Athena

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AAmazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data directly in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can point Athena at their data stored in S3 and begin using standard SQL to run ad-hoc queries and get results in seconds. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to setup or manage, and customers pay only for the queries they run. You can use Athena to process logs, perform ad-hoc analysis, and run…

    $5

    per TB of Data Scanned

    DigitalOcean

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ADigitalOcean is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform from the company of the same name headquartered in New York. It is known for its support of managed Kubernetes clusters and “droplets” feature.

    $5

    Starting Price Per Month

    MongoDB Atlas

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AMongoDB Atlas is the company's automated managed cloud service, supplying automated deployment, provisioning and patching, and other features supporting database monitoring and optimization.

    $57

    per month

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    Amazon AthenaDigitalOceanMongoDB Atlas
    Editions & Modules
    Price per Query
    $5.00
    per TB of Data Scanned
    1GB-16GB
    $5.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    8GB-160GB
    $60.00
    Starting Price Per Month
    Dedicated Clusters
    $57
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    Dedicated Multi-Reigon Clusters
    $95
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    Features
    Amazon AthenaDigitalOceanMongoDB Atlas
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Amazon Athena and DigitalOcean and MongoDB Atlas
    Feature
    Amazon Athena
    8.6
    4 Ratings
    2% above category average
    DigitalOcean
    -
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    MongoDB Atlas
    8.9
    6 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Automatic software patching8.22 Ratings00 Ratings9.16 Ratings
    Database scalability9.03 Ratings00 Ratings9.96 Ratings
    Automated backups7.73 Ratings00 Ratings9.96 Ratings
    Database security provisions9.22 Ratings00 Ratings9.16 Ratings
    Monitoring and metrics8.04 Ratings00 Ratings6.56 Ratings
    Automatic host deployment9.22 Ratings00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Amazon Athena and DigitalOcean and MongoDB Atlas
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    Amazon Athena
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    DigitalOcean
    9.2
    36 Ratings
    11% above category average
    MongoDB Atlas
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    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings9.931 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings9.932 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings9.723 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings10.029 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings9.035 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings9.733 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings9.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings8.632 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation00 Ratings6.55 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    MongoDB Atlas
    Score7.8 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Google BigQuery
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure Database
    Score8.8 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Azure Database
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Cloud SQL
    Score8.7 out of 10
    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
    Google Cloud SQL
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Amazon AthenaDigitalOceanMongoDB Atlas
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    8.9
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    8.3
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon AthenaDigitalOceanMongoDB Atlas
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    If you are looking to take a lot of the traditional "database administration" work off someone's plate, going with Amazon Athena certainly has "no code" options to optimize lots of database tasks. I would say this option is less appropriate if you have other Microsoft things at play, such as Power BI.
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    DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean is perfect for hosting client websites, running marketing tools, and managing media storage with Spaces and CDN. The use of Droplets to quickly launch landing pages or WordPress sites for campaigns is a Godsend. It’s great for fast, cheap, and scalable solutions. But for complex microservices or projects needing strict compliance (like HIPAA), DigitalOcean may not always be the best fit, but that depends heavily on your project.
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    MongoDB
    It is good if you: 1. Have unstructured data that you need to save (since it is NoSQL DB) 2. You don't have time or knowledge to setup the MongoDB Atlas, the managed service is the way to go (Atlas) 3. If you need a multi regional DB across the world
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Nested Schemas like JSON data structure
    • Ability to adapt the data model to fit your queries better
    • Performance Improvement
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    DigitalOcean
    • DigitalOcean provides some of the best cost-to-value services available
    • The DigitalOcean cloud console is very intuitive and easy to navigate
    • DigitalOcean has great support for Docker and other dev ops tools like Terraform.
    • DigitalOcean iterates quickly and provides cutting edge features for organizations that want to keep up with the latest and greatest dev ops tooling
    • DigitalOcean has a great developer community and numerous support docs/tutorials
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    MongoDB
    • Generous free and trial plan for evaluation or test purposes.
    • New versions of MongoDB are able to be deployed with Atlas as soon as they're released—deploying recent versions to other services can be difficult or risky.
    • As the key supporters of the open source MongoDB project, the service runs in a highly optimized and performant manner, making it much easier than having to do the work internally.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Response caching can be improved.
    • Data Partitioning is tricky and understanding of the same could be improved.
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    DigitalOcean
    • Some products/services available on other Cloud providers aren't available, but they seem to be catching up as they add new products like Managed SQL DBs.
    • While they have FreeBSD droplets (VMs), support for *BSD OSs is limited. I.e. the new monitoring agent only works on Linux.
    • There are no regions available on South America.
    • They don't seem to offer enterprise-level products, even basic ones as Windows Server, MS SQL Server, Oracle products, etc.
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    MongoDB
    • For someone new, it could be challenging using MongoDB Atlas. Some official video tutorials could help a lot
    • Pricing calculation is sometimes misleading and unpredictable, maybe better variables could be used to provide better insights about the cost
    • Since it is a managed service, we have limited control over the instances and some issues we faced we couldn't;'t know about without reaching out to the support and got fixed from their end. So more control over the instance might help
    • The way of managing users and access is somehow confusing. Maybe it could be placed somewhere easy to access
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    DigitalOcean
    I've been very happy with it for my purposes and I plan to continue to use DigitalOcean for the foreseeable future!
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    MongoDB
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    Easy to use. Scalable. Gets the job of data warehousing setup done. Using the datalake on S3 has become super convenient.
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    DigitalOcean
    I honestly can't think of an easier way to set up and maintain your own server. Being able to set up a server in minutes and have fully control is awesome. The UX is incredibly intuitive for first-time users as well so there's no reason to be intimidated when it comes to giving DigitalOcean a shot.
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    MongoDB
    I would give it 8. Good stuff: 1. Easy to use in terms of creating cluster, integrating with Databases, setting up backups and high availability instance, using the monitors they provide to check cluster status, managing users at company level, configure multiple replicas and cross region databases. Things hard to use: 1. roles and permissions at DB level. 2. Calculate expected costs
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    Reliability and Availability
    Amazon AWS
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    DigitalOcean
    Have not found a single second of down time myself. Superior availability.
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    MongoDB
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    Performance
    Amazon AWS
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    DigitalOcean
    Very quick response and high performance, you have to fine tune configurations on your machines though.
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    MongoDB
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    DigitalOcean
    They have always been fast, and the process has been straight-forward. I haven't had to use it enough to be frustrated with it, to be honest, and when I have an issue they fix it. As with all support, I wish it felt more human, but they are doing aces.
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    MongoDB
    We love MongoDB support and have great relationship with them. When we decided to go with MongoDB Atlas, they sent a team of 5 to our company to discuss the process of setting up a Mongo cluster and walked us through. when we have questions, we create a ticket and they will respond very quickly
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
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    DigitalOcean
    DigitalOcean is an inexpensive product as compared to other products available in the market. The UI is easy and the beginner can also understand the UI with the step by step guide. It provides a lot of custom features and the user needs to pay only for what they are using. Amazon has a complex UI and is on the expensive side. DigitalOcean is simple to use and is easily manageable and the servers can easily be set up without additional cost and such.
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    MongoDB
    MongoDB is a great product but on premise deployments can be slow. So we turned to Atlas. We also looked at Redis Labs and we use Redis as our side cache for app servers. But we love using MongoDB Atlas for cloud deployments, especially for prototyping because we can get started immediately. And the cost is low and easy to justify.
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    Scalability
    Amazon AWS
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    DigitalOcean
    Great scalability, you can start with small plans and move up to premium features at a very good price.
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    MongoDB
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • The query speeds help us make more decisions in a day (speed).
    • If you need more horsepower for specific times in the day this option helps scale.
    • The security of your environment is well protected too.
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    DigitalOcean
    • Positive - Elastic computer instances make it possible to pay for only for what you need.
    • Positive - Competitive pricing - some of the products that DigitalOcean offers are much cheaper than those offered by competitors.
    • Negative - Having to go to other cloud computing platforms for more specific, advanced services like Computer Vision optimized services, GPU cloud compute instances, etc...
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    MongoDB
    • Positive - Faster provisioning so we don't have development teams waiting.
    • Positive - Automated backups and server management - eliminates need for dedicated DBAs.
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