Item: MongoDB Atlas
Rating: 10
Author: Fabricio Zubelli

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 and Cons

Monitoring
Recommendation
NoSQL
Documents Database

Cost
Remote Access
User Management

Other Software Used

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), HashiCorp Vault, Grafana

Likelihood to Recommend

Suited: scenarios where you work with NoSQL data such as json objects that require scalability and elasticity of your load, multi-region deployments and all the security/good practices requirements like backup, user management, compliance, etc. Less appropriate: well if you require offline deployments MongoDB Atlas is not for you since its a cloud solution. Also since its managed by MongoDB Atlas you lose some of the fine tuning and configurations in MongoDB Atlas which might be a blocker.

Return on Investment

Low cost of implementation
Low cost of maintenance
Solved our project requirements very quickly

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

MongoDB Atlas has been in the market for very long time and there are bunch of documentation, training and support for it. It also is specifically designed for the use case similar to our project and big companies in the market uses them for very high load which made us confident about our choice.

Key Insights

Do you think MongoDB Atlas delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with MongoDB Atlas's feature set?

Yes

Did MongoDB Atlas live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of MongoDB Atlas go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy MongoDB Atlas again?

Yes

Great out of the box solution for documents data

Overall Satisfaction with MongoDB Atlas