Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) vs. MongoDB Atlas

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS)

288 Reviews and Ratings

MongoDB Atlas

64 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon RDS	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) from Amazon Web Services.	N/A
MongoDB Atlas	Score8.2 out of 10	N/A	MongoDB Atlas is the company's automated managed cloud service, supplying automated deployment, provisioning and patching, and other features supporting database monitoring and optimization.	$57 per month

Pricing

Amazon RDS

MongoDB Atlas

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL: $0.24 ($0.48)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for MariaDB: $0.25 ($0.50)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for MySQL: $0.29 ($0.58)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for Oracle: $0.482 ($0.964)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)
Amazon RDS for SQL Server: $1.02 ($1.52)
per hour, R5 Large (R5 Extra Large)

Dedicated Clusters: $57
per month
Dedicated Multi-Reigon Clusters: $95
per month
Shared Clusters: Free

Pricing Offerings
Amazon RDS	MongoDB Atlas
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Optional

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Amazon RDS	MongoDB Atlas
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Nir Levy VP R&D, DevOps, and Products in Research & Development at Zoomd Technologies (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon RDS Running MySQL RDS was a simpler solution than running standalone MySQL servers as the semi-managed nature of RDS saved us the need to install, maintain, secure, and backup our database servers. Using MySQL RDS was in addition to running MongoDB Atlas workloads and allowed us to … Incentivized Helpful? Adrián Rivelli Technical Leader (Citibank) in Information Technology at Tecso Coop (Banking, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon RDS Although the Rackspace service is not comparable, even though it is very good, it requires a lot of administration on my part. Regarding Atlas, although it is not the same as RDS in terms of provisioning and administration panel, I mention it because I found it simpler and more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon RDS Also ElephantSQL. Not as cost effective, but more integrated into our cloud environment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon RDS It is more suitable for our data structure and also has a lower management and implementation cost since we don`t have to do everything from scratch. It also offers great integration with other AWS services which makes it really good to work with. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon RDS As most of our infra is on AWS it is good that we use the same service provider as we want all of our infra to be in a single service provider for ease of maintaining. also, other services target very specific database engines vs RDS comes with lots of options which is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon RDS Atlas is easier to use, but we selected RDS because of its ability to use Postgres and MySQL as opposed to a document database. Amazon offers a document database service, but ultimately it made more sense architecturally to choose a standard database. Incentivized Helpful? Aman Makwana DevOps Engineer in Engineering at Freecharge (Information Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose Amazon RDS Because we have our whole architecure on AWS cloud so to provide close connectivity we have choose AWS RDS and also due to Features offered by AWS RDS. Incentivized Helpful? Manthan Dhola Solutions Architect in Professional Services at BIDAYA TECH (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon RDS amazon provides wide range of support for multiple database engines so we dont have to look for any other providers integration with aws ecosystem so we can seemlessly use other aws services connected to database aws have data points globally so it if data needs to be in … Incentivized Helpful? Fabricio Zubelli DevOps Engineer in Engineering at Kea (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon RDS Amazon Relational Database Service solves part of our architecture problem - more inclined towards on-line transactions and simple user data storage - whereas MongoDB is good for storing structured complex data. For most of the requirements we use Amazon Relational Database … Incentivized Helpful?	MongoDB Verified User Chose MongoDB Atlas In general, they all compete against each other, and each solution has its own advantages and disadvantages. While MongoDB Atlas was the way to go for some cases, however, other databases were more fit for some services that MongoDB Atlas, especially if they were managed by us, … Incentivized Helpful? Fabricio Zubelli DevOps Engineer in Engineering at Kea (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose MongoDB Atlas MongoDB Atlas has been in the market for very long time and there are bunch of documentation, training and support for it. It also is specifically designed for the use case similar to our project and big companies in the market uses them for very high load which made us … Incentivized Helpful? Nir Levy VP R&D, DevOps, and Products in Research & Development at Zoomd Technologies (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose MongoDB Atlas Both AWS RDS and MongoDB Atlas provide a state-of-the-art managed database hosting service, with the difference being the type of databases they support. AWS RDS does not support MongoDB engine and Atlas only supports MongoDB. So I consider them complimentary services and we … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Amazon RDS

MongoDB Atlas

Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) and MongoDB Atlas
Feature	Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) - Ratings	MongoDB Atlas 8.9 6 Ratings
Automatic software patching	00 Ratings	9.16 Ratings
Database scalability	00 Ratings	9.96 Ratings
Automated backups	00 Ratings	9.96 Ratings
Database security provisions	00 Ratings	9.16 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics	00 Ratings	6.56 Ratings
Automatic host deployment	00 Ratings	9.05 Ratings

User Ratings
	Amazon RDS	MongoDB Atlas
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (130 ratings)	8.3 (6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.4 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (7 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)
Availability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	7.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.6 (13 ratings)	10.0 (2 ratings)
Online Training	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)