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.
"Being able to change the size of an RDS MySQL instance is amazing."
"Amazon RDS is easy to manage, and it has customizable performance, high availability, and duality."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a fully managed database, where they handle most of the administrative tasks and leaves the users more time to concentrate on business."
"Encryption is the most valuable feature."
"Amazon RDS gives us the ability to select as many tools, replicas, regions, and zones as we want."
"The solution's customer service is excellent."
"The solution is good for on-premise deployments."
"The dashboard and performance are the most valuable features of Amazon RDS."
"It's flexible. We don't need to have a solid upstream availability failover, and everything is seamless in Atlas."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It enables us to get work done quickly and get to our data."
"The auto-scaling feature is the most valuable aspect."
"It has a flexible integration with our easy API."
"The product is user-friendly."
"The product allows us to easily set up and store large amounts of unstructured data."
"MongoDB Atlas is very easy to use and user-friendly, and you get what you're paying for."
"Technical support could be better."
"Amazon RDS should have a more user-friendly graphical user interface and include better database management options."
"The solution's connectivity and response logs could be improved."
"A lot of the features are disabled by default. The solution should enable more features. I understand this could cause challenges to management for many clients using RDS, however."
"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 Performance Monitor they have is a little clanky, at least in regards to the UI."
"In the next release, it would be great to see RDS provide connection pooling out of the box."
"The product should support new databases."
"The initial configuration fine-tuning for performance can be time-consuming."
"MongoDB Atlas should improve its user experience by providing better explanations or a wizard for people working with its UI."
"They could explore ways to facilitate deploying MongoDB containers within the platform."
"In the past, MongoDB offered more features for free, but now it's quite limited. The free version is limited, and you need to pay extra to fully utilize it. The pricing could be improved."
"Going forward, we would like to have pure AWS Cloud (native) storage instead regular storage on the AWS integration side."
"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."
"One improvement that I would like to see is a feature to export changes made in the environment, such as creating a new user."
"The replica side, like the venue, can be improved."
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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