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.
"Amazon RDS is lightweight and flexible."
"Amazon RDS is very easy to use."
"The time to install or set up a database environment is very fast."
"The dashboard and performance are the most valuable features of Amazon RDS."
"The solution is good for on-premise deployments."
"The Amazon RDS features I found most valuable are snapshots and automatic backups."
"The IT is easy to set up, which is the best."
"Amazon RDS is a scalable solution."
"It has a flexible integration with our easy API."
"The solution has a very intuitive user interface."
"The product provides quick transaction service, high availability, and efficient scalability features."
"Administering the solution is easy."
"The auto-scaling feature is the most valuable aspect."
"There are many valuable features, but scalability stands out. It can scale across zones. You can define multiple nodes. They have also partnered with AWS, offering great service with multiple features, including built-in backup, all under the same roof, without the need for external tools."
"The key feature of MongoDB Atlas that has been helpful for us is the ease of deploying new databases."
"Scalability is its most valuable feature, as it is pretty simple."
"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."
"The only thing that needs improvement would be the pricing of the solution."
"With my limited experience, I have noticed that documentation management could be improved. It could be better."
"Sometimes the interface has many moving parts, which is a concern."
"One notable improvement that could enhance the database management experience, particularly during migration scenarios, is the accessibility of the root user."
"It would be helpful if they made it easier to migrate from an existing on-premises solution to the cloud-based service."
"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 product must add more older versions of the database engines."
"It would be great if it were easier to integrate MongoDB Atlas with AWS services. Technical support for MongoDB Atlas could be better."
"There are some features that could be useful for the customers I work with, which are related to migration from on-prem to the cloud."
"The replica side, like the venue, can be improved."
"I would like a more comprehensive dashboard."
"It would be better if there were more integration capabilities with other products."
"The product's data aggregation feature needs to work faster."
"The UI application for MongoDB crashes a lot, so we would have to use a third-party plugin to make it work."
"The tool's implementation should be made easier."
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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