We compared Amazon RDS and MongoDB Atlas based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, MongoDB Atlas seems to be the superior solution. The main difference between these products comes from the powerful integrations that MongoDB Atlas offers. Amazon RDS’s integrations leave room for improvement.
"It is easy to use, flexible, and powerful."
"Amazon RDS is good for backups, auto-scanning, and disaster recovery. It's also appropriate for the office server."
"The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that it requires an easy setup phase, and it is also easy to use while not being too heavy on its users."
"The IT is easy to set up, which is the best."
"Amazon RDS is very easy to use."
"The solution has unique features like backup and recovery, and snapshots. It upgrades automatically. The solution offers easy analytics concerning performance metrics. Its reliability and scalability are very good. The tool's most valuable features are disaster recovery, high availability and scalability."
"The initial setup is straightforward, and technical support is good."
"It is very easy to set up initially."
"The speed of it is the most valuable feature."
"The solution is easy to use, the console is user-friendly, and overall a well-designed solution. It takes a complex system and makes it easy to understand. Additionally, the solution is always advancing and they provide a roadmap into what is coming in the future."
"MongoDB Atlas is a database that is quite fast, stable, and reliable."
"The features that I have found most valuable include the very easy integrations. The integrations are fantastic. I have not faced any challenges from the integration standpoint."
"The key feature of MongoDB Atlas that has been helpful for us is the ease of deploying new databases."
"It's a good solution for NoSQL databases."
"The product is simple to use and enterprise-ready. It is also open-source."
"You can start quickly on projects which allow you to store many things."
"The security features could be improved."
"AWS support is decent, but it's not as good as before. Sometimes, we get junior staff who are unable to answer our questions. It also depends on the support team you get. Support based in Europe and Australia is better than US support. For example, European support is quick to deliver the right answer. US support handles routine maintenance issues, and it's mostly junior staff who don't know the product well."
"Some of the features will not be there. For example, some on-premises things we want to set up will not be supported there. There are some challenges that they are fixing."
"If we do not keep track of our costs, we might face some problems."
"I like using Amazon RDS because it offers quick operations for me. However, there are times when understanding how to use some of the services can be challenging, even with documentation. If I could add a feature, I'd improve navigation for related services."
"Currently, we are using Fargate. Instead of that, we are planning to use EC2 instances, but we are facing some problems, and we are unable to enable NAT gateway for Elastic Load Balancer. When we enable auto-scaling, the instance count increases, and we get IP addresses dynamically. We need to whitelist the IPs of these instances, but there is no option to whitelist those IPs in Amazon RDS. We need one static IP that we can assign to ELB so that we can whitelist this IP."
"The support team of Amazon RDS provides us with some links to go through whenever we face some issues, but it doesn't work for us."
"The product should support new databases."
"MongoDB Atlas should add more APIs in their Terraform module because sometimes I find it difficult to find the resources in their Terraform model."
"MongoDB Atlas should improve its user experience by providing better explanations or a wizard for people working with its UI."
"I would like a more comprehensive dashboard."
"During the configuration, we did some migrations where we had to reindex about 70,000 indexes, which took around an hour. They should improve this and optimize the indexing."
"The UI application for MongoDB crashes a lot, so we would have to use a third-party plugin to make it work."
"Going forward, we would like to have pure AWS Cloud (native) storage instead regular storage on the AWS integration side."
"We had some edge cases where scalability was an issue where a node went offline, and we had to deal with that."
"I would like the solution to offer more integration capabilities since it is an area where the solution lacks."
Amazon RDS is ranked 1st in Database as a Service with 45 reviews while MongoDB Atlas is ranked 3rd in Database as a Service with 43 reviews. Amazon RDS is rated 8.4, while MongoDB Atlas is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon RDS writes "Provides excellent authentication, authorization, integration, data protection, and autoscaling features". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MongoDB Atlas writes "Allows our business to analyze social media data with machine learning and store the data in MongoDB". Amazon RDS is most compared with Google Cloud SQL, SQL Azure, Oracle Database as a Service, Google Cloud Spanner and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, whereas MongoDB Atlas is most compared with SQL Azure, Google Cloud SQL, Oracle Database as a Service, Google Cloud Spanner and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer. See our Amazon RDS vs. MongoDB Atlas report.
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