MongoDB vs RavenDB | TrustRadius

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Score 8.5 out of 10

Based on 376 reviews and ratings

Score 9.1 out of 10

Based on 23 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

MongoDB

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Performance

Availability

Concurrency

Security

Scalability

Data model flexibility

Deployment model flexibility

Pros

Not being written in C++, we can work with a much freer schema. MongoDB is very good to combine with JavaScript, mostly because the platform can be adapted to work with this language and leave aside what would be conventional procedures, and JavaScript is better for working with duplicated data.

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Adolfo Villadiego

Tracking Specialist

Lean Staffing SolutionsOutsourcing/Offshoring, 1001-5000 employees

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Document Database - no Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch
ACID support that is optimized for performance
Can be easily integrated into automated tests (unit tests)
Easily configurable via C# code
Comes directly with RavenStudio - no SSMS or SQL Developer required
In general low footprint when it comes to memory and disk consumption
Useful safety nets for new developers - e.g. by default an exception is thrown when you make too many requests within a session

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Technical Lead

Synnotech AGComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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Cons

MongoDB seems to be one of the most complete tools in its field, I believe that it has all the features that a non-relational database should have.
Perhaps because it is a relatively new tool there are very few experts in the field of MongoDB.

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Ronald Melendez

Desarrollador de software

Global ConsultingComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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The documentation is very good, but it's sometimes hard to find the topic I'm looking for.
Updating references is done manually. It would be nice if there was a feature to help with that. I'm not sure that's even possible though.

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CEO

Close Consulting IncComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

MongoDB 9.8

Based on 67 answers

Familiarity can be a great reason to continue use of a product as it affords you speed and tight accuracy in execution. Although I would love to try PostgreSQL as I've heard a lot of great things about it, MongoDB has not given me any reason or cause for concern in the projects that we have thrown at it.

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Developer

By the Book, Inc (Software For Churches/NonProfits)Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees

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RavenDB 9.5

Based on 5 answers

We've had an excellent experience using RavenDB. Internally we are testing the newer features in 5.0 such as time series, which will effect the con specified previously dependent on the real world performance. We foresee that BattleCrate will continue to use RavenDB as we grow.

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Co-founder

BattleCrate LtdComputer Games, 1-10 employees

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Usability

MongoDB 8.9

Based on 11 answers

NoSQL database systems such as MongoDB lack graphical interfaces by default and therefore to improve usability it is necessary to install third-party applications to see more visually the schemas and stored documents. In addition, these tools also allow us to visualize the commands to be executed for each operation.

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Jose Manuel Ortega

Software Engineer && Security researcher

UA - Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'AlacantComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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RavenDB 8.9

Based on 17 answers

RavenDB is easy to use and provides a very friendly and intuitive management tool. We can now map documents with indexes, transform unstructured data into JSON format and analyze text and spatial data in real-time. With an array of functional features like data visualization, SNMP monitoring, automated data backup, it is seamlessly helping us in managing databases' performance and generating custom reports.

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Aadeeb Siddiqui

Brand Manager

H.L. Agro Products Pvt. Ltd.Food Production, 501-1000 employees

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Support Rating

MongoDB 9.4

Based on 12 answers

I have reached multiple times to the MongoDB community for the help and they have provided each and easy solution for every problem. Over the internet and on stack overflow many people responds over the challenges. Now this tool is very much used in every company and projects so internally many people are there to give a support.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Outsourcing/Offshoring Company, 10,001+ employees

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RavenDB 8.9

Based on 18 answers

The support is really fast and flexible. Since one single working day, we got a response to our first request, only 4 days later we got a technical demonstration for our complete developer team to get in touch with raven and its performance. Also during our development, we got a quick response to questions.

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Team Lead in Research & Development

Automotive Company, 201-500 employees

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Implementation Rating

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.

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Sr. Platform Developer / UX Designer / Optimization Engineer

FunnelEnvyMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

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RavenDB 7.3

Based on 1 answer

RavenFS changed along the way and made us change the codes.

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Chief Technology Officer

JinnSpenderComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I only briefly looked at CouchDB after I already began using MongoDB. Naturally, I have used many relational SQL databases.Since MongoDB did everything I needed, I saw no need to look around for alternatives.(Okay, full disclosure. I am an "association" vs "inheritance" object-oriented snob. In Rails, ActiveRecord implements persistence via inheritance for SQL databases. The MongoDB gems like mongoid and mongomapper add persistance via association. Boom!)

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Manager Strategic Products

Intelliquip, LLCComputer Software, 11-50 employees

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The given alternatives are also powerful and really good noSQL databases but the highest availability of RavenDB allows me/us to know it a lot better.RavenDB is encrypted by default wherever we use it in production and it has a high level of documents compression.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

Open Source w/ reasonable support costs have a direct, positive impact on the ROI (we moved away from large, monolithic, locked in licensing models)
You do have to balance the necessary level of HA & DR with the number of servers required to scale up and scale out. Servers cost money - so DR & HR doesn't come for free (even though it's built into the architecture of MongoDB

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Senior Leader

GHXHospital & Health Care, 501-1000 employees

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RavenDB has saved my customers a lot of money with their cloud services' tiered model. The database is able to grow with the project/company and can start out small at a low cost.
RavenDB is free for three nodes and three CPUs, which makes it great for development scenarios. You're able to start rapidly building applications without having to worry about licensing.
Scaling out has allowed us to use three small cloud servers when starting out and get the performance and throughput of a single larger server.

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CEO

Close Consulting IncComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

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No

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