#1 most frequent
United States of America
53.4%720 installations of 1,349
What is MongoDB Atlas?
MongoDB Atlas is the company's automated managed cloud service, supplying automated deployment, provisioning and patching, and other features supporting database monitoring and optimization.
Categories & Use Cases
Videos
Top Performing Features
Automated backups
Automated backup enabling point-in-time data recovery
Category average: 8
Database scalability
Ease of scaling compute or memory resources and storage up or down
Category average: 9.2
Automatic software patching
Patches applied to database automatically
Category average: 8.3
Areas for Improvement
Database security provisions
Provision for database encryption, network isolation, and identity access management
Category average: 8.9
Automatic host deployment
Compute instance replacement in the event of hardware failure
Category average: 6.8
Monitoring and metrics
Built-in monitoring of multiple operational metrics
Category average: 6.9
Who Buys & Uses MongoDB Atlas
#2 most frequent
India
6.5%88 installations of 1,349
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
5.1%69 installations of 1,349
No time to manage your DB? A good start is MongoDB Atlas
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use MongoDB Atlas as one of our Data storage solutions that where we need an unstructured DB to store stuff like JSON documents for example. The main reason we went with Mongo DB Atlas is that it provides us with a fully manages cloud instance with high scalability and good security. Also, it provides automated backups and other cool features where you don't need to personally put huge effort to use. One big advantage is the availability across multiple regions.
All these cool features helped us to have a distributed DB with high Security and scalability with minimum effort to integrate and use.
All these cool features helped us to have a distributed DB with high Security and scalability with minimum effort to integrate and use.
Pros
- Autoscaling
- High availability
- Easy to integrate with
- Multi regional
- Backups and recovery
Cons
- 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
Return on Investment
- Reduced the time and effort needed to manage a DB
- Amazing availability and scalability for our data without human interaction
- The usage of fully managed service was less cost that having a team to work and manage a MongoDB Atlas cluster
Usability
Alternatives Considered
MariaDB Platform, Google Cloud SQL, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Elasticsearch, Google Cloud Datastore and Redis Software
Other Software Used
Camunda, Keycloak, Redis Software, GoDaddy, Cloudflare
Great out of the box solution for documents data
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use MongoDB Atlas to store documents used by our application to perform our business operations. MongoDB Atlas makes it easier to solve our business problem since we can directly interact with the documents in a format we want instead of having to deal with relational databases. It also enable us to do a straightforward approach with customer data by just making some teaks and uploading to MongoDB Atlas, which reduces the burden of developing stuff around it.
Pros
- Monitoring
- Recommendation
- NoSQL
- Documents Database
Cons
- Cost
- Remote Access
- User Management
Other Software Used
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), HashiCorp Vault, Grafana
Return on Investment
- Low cost of implementation
- Low cost of maintenance
- Solved our project requirements very quickly
Alternatives Considered
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Full Featured Managed MongoDB Hosting
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using MongoDB as a database for one of our applications, and MongoDB Atlas as the managed hosting for the database. Atlas is used for both development and production workloads and allows us to have a managed service with load-balancing, backup and recovery, and performance optimization. We have multiple databases running on the system serving multiple applications.
Pros
- Managed Database Hosting
- Backup and Recovery
- Perfomance Monitoring
- Scaling and Load Balancing
Cons
- Pricing for small instances could be cheaper
- Allow downscaling of existing instances
Return on Investment
- Improved our maintainability
- Reduced daily work compared to self-hosted solutions
- Reasonable pricing compared to value
Alternatives Considered
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)
Other Software Used
MongoDB, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), SingleStore
Atlas offers the best NoSQL DB in the Cloud
Pros
- DB Provisioning.
- DB Management.
Cons
- Live Migration Service.
Return on Investment
- Positive - Faster provisioning so we don't have development teams waiting.
- Positive - Automated backups and server management - eliminates need for dedicated DBAs.
Alternatives Considered
MongoDB and Redis
Other Software Used
IBM Db2 Big SQL, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, Redis
Great solution for NoSQL database
Pros
- No infrastructure on our side. Free of management.
- Easy to scale up and down.
Cons
- More granular billing.
- More specific alerting system.
Return on Investment
- Saves us time to manage our own infrastructure.
- Team members do not have to learn unnecessary setting up.
Alternatives Considered
MongoDB, Amazon DynamoDB, Google Cloud Datastore and Firebase
Other Software Used
Firebase, Google Cloud Datastore, Amazon DynamoDB