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 makes it easy to administer the database. It helps to scale your database by providing Read Replicas, which reduce transaction time. It is highly available and durable which helps in disaster recovery and management."
"Amazon RDS gives us the ability to select as many tools, replicas, regions, and zones as we want."
"Relational databases excel in extensive normalization, eliminating data redundancy and efficiently structuring tables which leads to a clear and efficient relationship between tables using primary keys."
"Encryption is the most valuable feature."
"The solution is scalable and can be configured with AWS Secrets Manager."
"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 initial setup is straightforward, and technical support is good."
"Amazon RDS is quite a well-managed and stable service...The initial setup was very easy."
"The product allows us to easily set up and store large amounts of unstructured data."
"It's flexible. We don't need to have a solid upstream availability failover, and everything is seamless in Atlas."
"The auto-scaling feature is the most valuable aspect."
"It has a flexible integration with our easy API."
"The most useful feature is the management of the backup."
"Its most valuable features are high availability and zero maintenance."
"Scalability is its most valuable feature, as it is pretty simple."
"The most beneficial MongoDB features for our workload are the ability to scale up and down using automatic sharding and clustering."
"The security features could be improved."
"There are a few aspects of database management that have room for improvement. There are a few parameters in the solution that are a bit unclear at our end as it's not understandable."
"The product must add more older versions of the database engines."
"There are some advanced monitoring queries that we cannot execute because Amazon doesn't give admin privileges to the end users."
"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."
"Currently, speaking of Microsoft SQL on RDS, you don't have a full option to be able to use it directly on RDS. So, it needs improvement."
"It would be helpful if they made it easier to migrate from an existing on-premises solution to the cloud-based service."
"It would be better if it integrated seamlessly with Microsoft products. Our clients use the Microsoft Tally application server. We already tried to create a reputation from, for example, an on-premises environment from our client to Amazon RDS using Microsoft Tally server, and we couldn't do that because we didn't have a strong user in RDS. We couldn't create a reputation from an on-premises environment from the Microsoft Tally server to RDS. I think that it would be a good implementation, and it would help us with this case."
"I would like a more comprehensive dashboard."
"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 a better dashboard. It could be made a bit more user friendly."
"The product's file storage documentation needs improvement."
"The cost needs improvement."
"The initial setup is not too difficult but can be somewhat tricky."
"It would be better if there were more integration capabilities with other products."
"The biggest challenge we all have is an application layer level. One node is sitting in the APAC region, another node is sitting in the US and UK region. The seamless replication has to be lightning fast, but we haven't tested the scalability yet."
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 42 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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