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Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon S3
I've used S3 continuously for projects large and small for over 10 years. It's just such a common and essential tool in software development. Hosting assets/images, or providing file upload abilities to users, come up very often throughout software, and S3 is hands-down the best place to serve and store files. It's flexible enough that you can use client libraries to perform direct uploads rather than writing your own handlers, etc. S3 is a tool that immediately has value for file hosting and storage, and then extends as far as you need it to for all manner of asset management.

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Employee in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employeesMongoDB
Mongo DB is better placed in large projects, with great scalability. It also allows you to work quite comfortably with projects based on programming languages such as javascript angular typescript C #. I believe that its performance is much better with the type of technologies that handle very logical, similar terms of programming. If we use languages like java php, for example, it is better to work with relational databases like postgres or mySql. Since this type of technology allows you to work better with database management frameworks much more agile for these environments, such as JPA, HIBERNATE, Oracle, I think they are much better with this type of architecture and programming languages.
Desarrollador de software
Global ConsultingComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
NoSQL Databases
Amazon S3
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MongoDB
9.0
Performance
Amazon S3
—
MongoDB
9.3
Availability
Amazon S3
—
MongoDB
9.0
Concurrency
Amazon S3
—
MongoDB
8.6
Security
Amazon S3
—
MongoDB
8.2
Scalability
Amazon S3
—
MongoDB
9.3
Data model flexibility
Amazon S3
—
MongoDB
9.2
Deployment model flexibility
Amazon S3
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MongoDB
9.2
Pros
Amazon S3
- Highly available and redundant; we do not worry about the service having downtime
- Simple usage from multiple different frameworks using Amazon's SDKs, or roll your own
- A large number of bucket policies and security adjustments to tailor usage to customer needs
- Regional support for storing assets in particular locations around the world
Head of Engineering
Jock MKTComputer Software, 11-50 employees
MongoDB
- Easy to learn. When I picked up MongoDB for the first time, I had little background in database management or modeling. If you have a background in javascript (and JSON)... then you can figure out how to use MongoDB pretty fast.
- Fast performance.
- It's relatively easy to set up in certain environments because there are lots of ready-made solutions out there.
- There's a lot of support in the existing ecosystem for it —, especially in the node.js realm.
- Query syntax is pretty simple to grasp and utilize.
- Aggregate functions are powerful.
- Scaling options.
- Documentation is quite good and versioned for each release.
Developer
By the Book, Inc (Software For Churches/NonProfits)Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees
Cons
Amazon S3
- No support for object versions retention: There can be a retention policy(days or number) for object versions that are stored in S3 so that we don't have to worry about paying extra for all the old versions of an object in the bucket.
- No feature for replication within a region: Currently AWS does not support replication within a region. Also, having to enable versioning for buckets in which you need replication makes it even more costly.
- Confusing pricing: The pricing model of S3 can be a little confusing for a new customer with questions regarding data transfer from other AWS services, between buckets or data transfer to the outside world.

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Engineer in Engineering
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 201-500 employeesMongoDB
- I love the idea of Map-Reduce native support in MongoDB. Admittedly I have not used it as much as I would like -- it always seems to trip me up.
- Recent additions to the aggregation queries have helped reduce (no pun intended) my need to better wield the weapon that is Map-Reduce.
Manager Strategic Products
Intelliquip, LLCComputer Software, 11-50 employees
Likelihood to Renew
Amazon S3
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
MongoDB
MongoDB 9.6
Based on 68 answers
This is a very convenient "go to" database for application CRUD operations. So many applications need to create, read, update, and delete records. Here's the trick though - as a product changes, the data does as well. Having a database that makes this process easy and avoids the need to manage a schema and migrations is extremely valuable.MongoDB may not be the tool for every need but it is often always a tool that gets used for some need or another.
Sr. Platform Developer / UX Designer / Optimization Engineer
FunnelEnvyMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Usability
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 7.2
Based on 6 answers
The AWS S3 API is translated into every language you can think of, and is very powerful. However, the split of features into the AWS CLI -> S3 and AWS CLI -> S3API causes some confusion when dealing with complex uploading and metadata.
Lead Frontend Engineer
MaisonetteApparel & Fashion, 11-50 employees
MongoDB
MongoDB 8.0
Based on 3 answers
I'm not a database expert by any means. But MongoDB has helped lower the barrier to entry in the world of full stack development. It has an expressive and easy to understand syntax and API. Additionally, their documentation is really quite detailed and easy to follow. Anyone with javascript experience should be able to work with it.
Developer
By the Book, Inc (Software For Churches/NonProfits)Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees
Support Rating
Amazon S3
Amazon S3 8.9
Based on 21 answers
Overall, Amazon S3 has worked out great for our organization. It has enabled us to build out a centralized storage solutions for fraction of the cost that a on-prem solution would have required. If properly managed S3 is a great asset to any organization. There a few small things that need improvement like the UI and storage monitoring but over it's been great.

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C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Media Production Company, 51-200 employeesMongoDB
MongoDB 8.0
Based on 4 answers
I never had problems with the application. It complies with all the characteristics that the company specifies with this product.
User support technician
IBMComputer Software, 10,001+ employees
Implementation Rating
Amazon S3
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
MongoDB
MongoDB 8.4
Based on 4 answers
While the setup and configuration of MongoDB is pretty straight forward, having a vendor that performs automatic backups and scales the cluster automatically is very convenient. If you do not have a system administrator or DBA familiar with MongoDB on hand, it's a very good idea to use a 3rd party vendor that specializes in MongoDB hosting. The value is very well worth it over hosting it yourself since the cost is often reasonable among providers.
Sr. Platform Developer / UX Designer / Optimization Engineer
FunnelEnvyMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Alternatives Considered
Amazon S3
Overall, we found that Amazon S3 provided a lot of backend features Google Cloud Storage (GCS) simply couldn't compare to. GCS was way more expensive and really did not live up to it. In terms of setup, Google Cloud Storage may have Amazon S3 beat, however, as it is more of a pseudo advanced version of Google Drive, that was not a hard feat for it to achieve. Overall, evaluating GCS, in comparison to S3, was an utter disappointment.

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Employee in Marketing
Retail Company, 11-50 employeesMongoDB
MongoDB was the most full-featured NoSQL database we evaluated - that offered atomic transactions at a document level, built-in HA & DR, open source, robust queries, and enterprise level support.Other platforms had specific parts of what we were looking for - MongoDB had it all.
Senior Leader
GHXHospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees
Return on Investment
Amazon S3
- It practically eliminated some real heavy storage servers from our premises and reduced maintenance cost.
- The excellent durability and reliability make sure the return of money you invested in.
- If the objects which are not active or stale, one needs to remove them. Those objects keep adding cost to each billing cycle. If you are handling a really big infrastructure, sometimes this creates quite a huge bill for preserving un-necessary objects/documents.
Senior Solutions Architect
InfostretchInformation Technology and Services, 1001-5000 employees
MongoDB
- Much faster development time.
- Price is fantastic compared to MSSQL when you consider OS costs and the entire package.
- Only negative to me is the lack of DBA skills for it, due to it being a new player in the field. I feel like that will get better as time moves on however.
Application Developer
North 40 Outfitters - CSWW, Inc.Retail, 501-1000 employees
Screenshots
Amazon S3
—Pricing Details
Amazon S3
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
MongoDB
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No