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.
"The initial setup is straightforward, and technical support is good."
"I found it to be a stable solution."
"The solution’s scalability, usability, and availability are valuable to us."
"Encryption is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon RDS is its performance."
"I recommend RDS because it makes your life super easy."
"The solution is scalable and can be configured with AWS Secrets Manager."
"The most valuable aspect of Amazon RDS is it is on the cloud."
"The initial setup of MongoDB Atlas is straightforward...It is a scalable solution."
"It is nice because our developers create tables whenever they need to sync data."
"The product is user-friendly."
"The most beneficial MongoDB features for our workload are the ability to scale up and down using automatic sharding and clustering."
"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."
"Our databases used to be in-house. Now, they are in the cloud with MongoDB and everything is much easier."
"MongoDB Atlas is a database that is quite fast, stable, and reliable."
"The solution has a very intuitive user interface."
"The solution's version upgrade and performance could be improved."
"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."
"When you are using it for the first time, it is a little bit hard to configure. The first-time configuration is not very easy. It should be easier to configure. Its installation should also be simpler. Currently, its installation is very complex. With SQL Server, we have access to the SQL Server analysis services and reporting services, but such services are not available with Amazon RDS."
"If we do not keep track of our costs, we might face some problems."
"The product must add more older versions of the database engines."
"In the next release, it would be great to see RDS provide connection pooling out of the box."
"The solution's connectivity and response logs could be improved."
"Amazon has a policy of automatically restarting the server every seven days."
"The product's file storage documentation needs improvement."
"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."
"The replica side, like the venue, can be improved."
"The UI is not currently designed in a manner to make it possible for a non-technical person or a layman to update the database easily."
"An area for improvement in MongoDB Atlas is that it does not support individual or personal database backup, though it supports cloud cluster backup."
"We need improved query performance."
"One improvement that I would like to see is a feature to export changes made in the environment, such as creating a new user."
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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