MongoDB Atlas Valuable Features

AhmetÖzdemir - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Database Administrator at Türk Telekom

Administering the solution is easy.

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Gabriel Anderson - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Software Engineer at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees

I find the cluster demonstration and APIs to be the most valuable features of MongoDB Atlas. The APIs allow me to programmatically make changes to the environment. Additionally, the interface is user-friendly and easy to navigate. Another feature that I find useful is the separation of projects, which allows for different projects to have their own settings.

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IB
Software Architect at Yum! Brands

The most beneficial MongoDB features for our workload are the ability to scale up and down using automatic sharding and clustering. This is crucial for handling diverse requirements and integrations with different configurations. The flexibility to support various deployments, whether on AWS, Azure, or GCP, by easily adding additional clusters, has been another significant advantage.

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MongoDB Atlas
April 2024
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Manav Sethi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Yamaha Motor Solutions India

The most valuable feature of MongoDB Atlas is that it's on the cloud, so you don't need to set up all your servers. It has the latest features like MongoDB Atlas Data Lake, Data APIs, and high-performance MongoDB on the cloud. It also allows us to visualize data through charts. So, the charts are visible on MongoDB Atlas. In my projects, I found users to be the most useful feature of the solution. We deployed MongoDB Atlas for around 500 users and gave them different authorized roles and permissions, allowing us to create an updated database this year.

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Dave Ezrakhovich - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability Engineering at WiseTech Global

MongoDB Atlas is very easy to use and user-friendly, and you get what you're paying for. MongoDB Atlas is very easy to use when you are familiar with MongoDB and how to write query functions. I would give the solution a nine out of ten for usability.

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CG
President at Alpha Maxx Healthcare

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.

We have a data repository that is floating and MongoDB Atlas allows many data from different sources without the need to convert it.

The solution allows for encryption, quick processing, self-manages, and indexes on the fly.

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reviewer2140113 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works

The security is great. This solution provides a range of advanced security features, including encryption at rest and transit, access control, and network isolation. This can help organizations to protect their sensitive data and comply with the industry.

The scalability is excellent. This solution provides the organization with the ability to easily scale its database up or down based on its changing needs. This can help the organization save costs by only paying for the resources they need and avoid overprovisioning.        

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Leonard Niehaus - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at CGI

The most valuable feature is that it's all web-based. So one can browse collections just from the web. MongoDB Atlas is easily accessible, quick to understand, and quick to learn. People who have never used CLI can hop into the web interface and browse the database.

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Marco Giovannini - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect Freelancer at 73 Team

The auto-scaling feature is the most valuable aspect. It allows us to get an idea of the capacity without guessing or worrying about coming up short. 

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Bahattin Yetismis - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at BE1 consultancy

It's a good solution for NoSQL databases.

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Shivam_Tiwari - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Revenue Box Technologies, Pvt Ltd

There is a built-in feature called Autoscaling In MongoDB Atlas. This feature automatically adjusts the configuration of MongoDB based on the volume of users we ingest daily. Autoscaling dynamically scales the resources to accommodate the load when our data flow increases.

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AL
Test Automation Lead at Entrotsust technlogies

The stability and performance are great. The high availability feature is great.

Moreover, I am happy with the automated backup and restore functionality.

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Gunjesh Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Object-based data storing capability and managing non-structured data capability are the most valuable features of MongoDB Atlas.

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CC
Principal Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

MongoDB Atlas is a platform as a service and it has proven to be particularly valuable due to its self-managing nature. This has allowed us to minimize the amount of time and effort required to manage it, as it effectively manages itself. Additionally, it is a complete solution when looking at its features.

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Isuru Jayathissa - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Lead at Creative Software

Being schemaless is what I like best about MongoDB Atlas.

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Roman Starikov - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technical Director at LondonLink OTC Limited

The product is simple to use and enterprise-ready. It is also open-source. 

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Andry Rakotozafinirina - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at CPP-SYSTEM

The product provides quick transaction service, high availability, and efficient scalability features.

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Luis Mario Ramos Santos - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior FullStack Developer/Engineer/Architect at Capitbrok

The solution has a very intuitive user interface. It is very simple to use.

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NB
Software Architect at AIOPS group

We're happy with the performance, maintenance, and especially the ease of use within Google Cloud.

Given our microservices architecture, it's like a large puzzle, and MongoDB feels like it fills the gaps we were facing. So, the global clusters feature has enhanced our application performance and user experience.

It helps us optimize team performance, which is valuable.

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Souvik Banerjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Engineer at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

What I found most valuable in MongoDB Atlas is its Elasticsearch feature.

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SE
Software developer at MTNIrancell

The product allows us to easily set up and store large amounts of unstructured data.

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Anish Shenoy - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Architect at EvoluteIQ

The solution is valuable since it works as an unstructured database.

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RahulSingh12 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect & Group Lead at AppEnsure Inc.

I am impressed with the tool's integrations.

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Sajith Paul - PeerSpot reviewer
Prime Associate Member at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

The dynamic structures are the most valuable. The SQL is fast but requires a different structure.

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AB
Big Data Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The most useful feature is the management of the backup. I use a managed tool offered by MongoDB to manage an on-prem environment and compare it with the SaaS service and software. The solution is very ready-to-use and it is much simpler to manage backups, which cuts down on the amount of work and stress. It is much easier for me to do, and I understand that Atlas MongoDB has many features. However, for the type of DBIR work I do, backup management is the most important feature.

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Ravi Kuppusamy - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO and Founder at BAssure Solutions

It's flexible. We don't need to have a solid upstream availability failover, and everything is seamless in Atlas. They do all the replication, and all that is probably happening behind the scenes. The pricing isn't that high compared to any of the IBM products.

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VP
Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • As a user, it is very easy to use. There is nothing complicated.
  • We can write queries and go through it very quickly; our queries are quicker with it. 
  • Many tools are there. Other companies are providing many tools for getting to your MongoDB.
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AJ
IT admin at Automode

The solution is easily scalable and manageable. Tools can be easily added to the solution.

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PM
Senior Software Engineer at Axcess Financial
  • Autoscaling
  • No overhead
  • No maintenance
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AR
Technical Director for Innovation Lab at Smile

You can start quickly on projects which allow you to store many things.

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DB
Senior Application Developer at Albert Einstein Healthcare Network

The speed of it is the most valuable feature.

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Andre Kapp - PeerSpot reviewer
Snr. Developer at Mama Money Pty

The solution is easy. It's just not the solution for every use case, however, it's very nice if you don't have structured data or you don't really worry about the structure all the time.

The integration capabilities are fine.

The dashboards are good.

The product is user-friendly.

The solution can scale. 

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CR
Deputy CTO at a tech company with 51-200 employees

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.

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RK
Data Science Lead at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The cloud-based nature of this solution makes it flexible and scalable. I like the fact that you can make the deployment bigger, as needed.

Not having to maintain it yourself is good.

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VB
Senior Project Manager - IT Services at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

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.

In terms of storage, it is pay as you go storage so I'm just paying for the service.

The dashboards are very good, you can customize as per your requirement.

The configuration is so easy. It's very handy and user-friendly. You just need to open the portal page, configure your application, and you are done. 10 minutes are required, that's it.

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DG
Information Risk Officer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Scalability is its most valuable feature, as it is pretty simple.
  • The maintenance is fairly easy. 
  • It was easy and quick to market in terms of getting the application deployed rapidly.
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TB
Senior DevOps Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
  • Flexibility
  • An easy API
  • Its redundance: We have a cluster of three very solid instances, so its very reliable.
  • The integration went well and was lightweight.
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RG
Senior QA Engineer at SendGrid

As a tester, it was easy to validate data, access data, make active run queries against it, and retrieve data from it.

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GR
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
  • High availability
  • Zero maintenance, to double up things.
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Waris - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The most valuable feature is schemaless architecture and its rich query support.

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Buyer's Guide
MongoDB Atlas
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about MongoDB Atlas. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,578 professionals have used our research since 2012.