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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    MongoDB Atlas

    Score7.7 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

    Snowflake

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AThe Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.N/A
    Pricing
    MongoDB AtlasSnowflake
    Editions & Modules
    Dedicated Clusters
    $57
    per month
    Dedicated Multi-Reigon Clusters
    $95
    per month
    Shared Clusters
    Free
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    MongoDB AtlasSnowflake
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    MongoDB AtlasSnowflake
    Considered Both Products
    MongoDB
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    Snowflake Computing
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    96%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    MongoDB AtlasSnowflake
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of MongoDB Atlas and Snowflake
    Feature
    MongoDB Atlas
    8.9
    6 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Snowflake
    -
    Ratings
    Automatic software patching9.16 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database scalability9.96 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated backups9.96 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database security provisions9.16 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring and metrics6.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic host deployment9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    MongoDB AtlasSnowflake
    Small Businesses
    Google BigQuery
    Score8.8 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure Database
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Amazon Redshift
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Cloud SQL
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Amazon Redshift
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    MongoDB AtlasSnowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (44 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (20 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.9
    (8 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MongoDB AtlasSnowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Snowflake Computing
    Snowflake is well suited when you have to store your data and you want easy scalability and increase or decrease the storage per your requirement. You can also control the computing cost, and if your computing cost is less than or equal to 10% of your storage cost, then you don't have to pay for computing, which makes it cost-effective as well.
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    Pros
    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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    Snowflake Computing
    • Snowflake scales appropriately allowing you to manage expense for peak and off peak times for pulling and data retrieval and data centric processing jobs
    • Snowflake offers a marketplace solution that allows you to sell and subscribe to different data sources
    • Snowflake manages concurrency better in our trials than other premium competitors
    • Snowflake has little to no setup and ramp up time
    • Snowflake offers online training for various employee types
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    Cons
    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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    Snowflake Computing
    • Add constraints for views and not just for tables
    • Do not force customers to renew for same or higher amount to avoid loosing unused credits. Already paid credits should not expire (at least within a reasonable time frame), independent of renewal deal size.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    MongoDB
    No answers on this topic
    Snowflake Computing
    SnowFlake is very cost effective and we also like the fact we can stop, start and spin up additional processing engines as we need to. We also like the fact that it's easy to connect our SQL IDEs to Snowflake and write our queries in the environment that we are used to
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    Usability
    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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    Snowflake Computing
    Because the fact that you can query tons of data in a few seconds is incredible, it also gives you a lot of functions to format and transform data right in your query, which is ideal when building data models in BI tools like Power BI, it is available as a connector in the most used BI tools worldwide.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Snowflake Computing
    We have had terrific experiences with Snowflake support. They have drilled into queries and given us tremendous detail and helpful answers. In one case they even figured out how a particular product was interacting with Snowflake, via its queries, and gave us detail to go back to that product's vendor because the Snowflake support team identified a fault in its operation. We got it solved without lots of back-and-forth or finger-pointing because the Snowflake team gave such detailed information.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Snowflake Computing
    I have had the experience of using one more database management system at my previous workplace. What Snowflake provides is better user-friendly consoles, suggestions while writing a query, ease of access to connect to various BI platforms to analyze, [and a] more robust system to store a large amount of data. All these functionalities give the better edge to Snowflake.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Snowflake Computing
    • With separate compute and storage feature, the queries get executed quickly and it improves our overall productivity.
    • Earlier we were using a different product for analytical purposes, but with Snowflake's in-built analytical feature we are now able to save money.
    • Snowflake is cost efficient, features like auto suspend for compute resources helped to control the costs.
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