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 easy to maintain and easy to deploy."
"It is easy to use, flexible, and powerful."
"One of the most valuable features is that it is serverless, so we don't have to worry about scaling."
"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."
"It is stable, scalable, and easy to deploy."
"The product is very, 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."
"Amazon RDS gives us the ability to select as many tools, replicas, regions, and zones as we want."
"The product is user-friendly."
"The product is simple to use and enterprise-ready. It is also open-source."
"The most valuable feature is that it's all web-based. So one can browse collections just from the web. MongoDB Atlas is very accessible, quick to understand, and quick to learn. People who have never used CLI can hop into the web interface and browse the database."
"The solution is easily scalable and manageable. Tools can be easily added to the solution."
"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 most valuable feature of MongoDB Atlas is it's seamless when working with a lot of different systems. Additionally, it is able to adjust the data based on the data being received."
"The stability and performance are great. The high availability feature is great. Moreover, I am happy with the automated backup and restore functionality."
"The most useful feature is the management of the backup."
"The security features could be improved."
"I would like to see improvements in the tool's automatic restart."
"The only thing that needs improvement would be the pricing of the solution."
"The Performance Monitor they have is a little clanky, at least in regards to the UI."
"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."
"The product should support new databases."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"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."
"We had some bad trainers when we first came onboard and would rate them fairly low. They did not seem staffed properly to fulfill the training services that they offered."
"When I edit a document from a document, a lot of clicking is involved, like changing data type manually from a drop-down. It would be super nice if I could just edit the document in a JSON format. The JSON-based document editor should have a multi-language feature. Also, it would be great if there was a connect option from Google Looker Studio."
"I would like to have better performance for user experience with the solution."
"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 tool's implementation should be made easier."
"It would be better if there were more integration capabilities with other products."
"One improvement that I would like to see is a feature to export changes made in the environment, such as creating a new user."
"A few areas that we have noticed as being problematic with the MongoDB Atlas include user access to the platform. Currently, it is difficult to restrict and control what actions a user can perform within the solution, which poses a challenge from an internal auditing perspective."
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 41 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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