Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) vs. OpenSearch

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
Score 5.3 out of 10
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Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is presented by the vendor as a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB is designed to make it easy to store, query, and index JSON data.N/A
OpenSearch
Score 8.2 out of 10
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OpenSearch is an open-source software suite for search, analytics, and observability applications licensed under Apache 2.0. Powered by Apache Lucene and driven by the OpenSearch Project community, OpenSearch offers a vendor-agnostic toolset that can be used to build applications, or as an end-to-end solution, or connected with preferred open-source tools or partner projects.N/A
Pricing
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)OpenSearch
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Offerings
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Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)OpenSearch
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)OpenSearch
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Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)OpenSearch
Small Businesses
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Medium-sized Companies
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)OpenSearch
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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8.0
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User Testimonials
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)OpenSearch
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
AWS Document DB (with MongoDB compatibility) is well suited when for all the workloads due to its huge feature offerings which will reduce our operational overhead and due to that we can focus more on our WorkLoad rather than optimising and fine tuning Databases. Its Offerings are Advanced Monitoring, DB cluster Upgrades, Migration Assistant, High Availability, Fault Tolerance, Data Durability, Security, Storage Auto Scaling, Backup Restore policies.AWS Document DB (with MongoDB compatibility) some of the features that are there in some other services like MongoDB Atlas that offers vast amount of features plus Supports Multi Cloud while Deploying Database clusters, Immediate support to latest Mongo DB versions, Mobile & Edge Sync like Atlas Edge Sync, Freedom to choose Database deployment in Any top Public Cloud, Having more then 100 plus Monitoring and Telemetry metrics for index and schema recommendations, More Compatibility with MongoDB queries.
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Open Source
OpenSearch Service presents a cost-effective pricing model, allowing users to pay solely for their usage without being burdened by minimum fees or upfront commitments. Its seamless integration with various AWS services enhances its adaptability for a wide range of data analysis requirements and also I love using it isn't it enough.
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) provides Auto scaling of cluster as a by default functionality through this we can focus on more on our applications end
  • Through AWS Document DB without much operation overhead we can configure for Database's high availability, Durability, Backup Restores policies, Advanced Monitoring, Security Parameters.
  • Also they can provide us a Guide for Database Migration from any Supported Mongo DB vendor to AWS Document DB.
  • Via AWS Document DB query Logging ( Profiling ) we can fine tune our database queries and hence improving our END to END Customer Experience and Product Enhancements.
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Open Source
  • Gives us millisecond response times
  • Mainly open-source
  • Integration Seamlessly with AWS
  • Has a very big community so problems are fixes sooner then later
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Give support for Latest Mongo DB versions available in market
  • AWS Document DB is limited up to 32 shards per cluster and 2 shards per Document DB instance and all within single region
  • Start supporting more numbers of Rich data types
  • Should have access to MongoDB experts who throw light on Cutting edge mongoDB features and integration consulting.
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Open Source
  • Needs more descriptive documentation
  • The UI feels a bit old
  • Some functionality still doesn't work correctly
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
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Open Source
Well as I said, Elastic is behind paywall now and managing OpenSearch through AWS is so seamless that we just love it. It gets updates faster we don't have to manage separate infra and many other settings to work with elastic search and some of the tools that it provides are better then them.
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Great Customer Experience as DB queries are fine tuned
  • Less Operational Overhead to manage and take care of the Database
  • Automatic applying of Small patches
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Open Source
  • Well we had 200 ms response times which decreased to 100ms while using OpenSearch
  • Easy to use security plugins we dont need external IAM
  • Super Easy Integration with many AWS Services such as kinsesi data stream and dynamoDB
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ScreenShots

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Screenshots

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