No time to manage your DB? A good start is MongoDB Atlas
August 26, 2024

No time to manage your DB? A good start is MongoDB Atlas

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with MongoDB Atlas

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.

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
  • 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
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
In general, they all compete against each other, and each solution has its own advantages and disadvantages. While MongoDB Atlas was the way to go for some cases, however, other databases were more fit for some services that MongoDB Atlas, especially if they were managed by us, which means less cost, like Redis for example

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

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

MongoDB Atlas Feature Ratings

Database-as-a-Service
8.8
Automatic software patching
9
Database scalability
10
Automated backups
10
Database security provisions
9
Monitoring and metrics
6

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