MongoDB Atlas vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
MongoDB Atlas
Score 8.2 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
Percona Server for MongoDB
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Percona Server for MongoDB is a free and open-source drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition. It combines all the features and benefits of MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-class features from Percona. Built on the MongoDB Community Edition, Percona Server for MongoDB provides flexible data structure, native high availability, easy scalability, and developer-friendly syntax. It also includes an in-memory engine, hot backups, LDAP authentication, database auditing, and log…N/A
Pricing
MongoDB AtlasPercona Server for MongoDB
Editions & Modules
Dedicated Clusters
$57
per month
Dedicated Multi-Reigon Clusters
$95
per month
Shared Clusters
Free
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
MongoDB AtlasPercona Server for MongoDB
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsFree and open-source
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Community Pulse
MongoDB AtlasPercona Server for MongoDB
Considered Both Products
MongoDB Atlas
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, …
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 …
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 …
Chose MongoDB Atlas
MongoDB Atlas has an excellent rating out there in the market. They have a great supporting team as well. When we have questions about technical stuff, they respond fast. The performance of MongoDB Atlas is the key factor that we choose to use. Because it has such an easy way …
Chose MongoDB Atlas
MongoDB is a great product but on premise deployments can be slow. So we turned to Atlas. We also looked at Redis Labs and we use Redis as our side cache for app servers. But we love using MongoDB Atlas for cloud deployments, especially for prototyping because we can get …
Chose MongoDB Atlas
When choosing a NoSQL, open source database, MongoDB is the clear winner from an implementation standpoint. For databases that are better suited for highly-organized data, a traditional database engine like MySQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle's RDBMS may be a better choice. When the …
Percona Server for MongoDB
Chose Percona Server for MongoDB
At the performance level, it is similar to other solutions such as MongoDB and Percona Server for MySQL. and at the customization level, it offers better support for the development of specific solutions that seek good performance in transactions.
Features
MongoDB AtlasPercona Server for MongoDB
Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
MongoDB Atlas
8.9
Ratings
3% above category average
Percona Server for MongoDB
-
Ratings
Automatic software patching9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Database scalability9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated backups9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Database security provisions9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics6.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic host deployment9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
MongoDB AtlasPercona Server for MongoDB
Likelihood to Recommend
8.3
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
MongoDB AtlasPercona Server for MongoDB
Likelihood to Recommend
I would recommend MongoDB Atlas to every company who have a significant need in the NoSQL database and do not want to manage their infrastructure. Using MongoDB Atlas can significantly reduce your management time and cost, which saves valuable resources for other tasks. It also suits a smaller company as MongoDB Atlas scales up and down very quickly.
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It offers good support for the implementation of solutions in the public and on-premises cloud and integration with other services such as Hashicorp Vault for data encryption. One of the main advantages is the ease of configuration, in addition to offering transaction support for the different operations and scalability of the servers.
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Pros
  • Generous free and trial plan for evaluation or test purposes.
  • New versions of MongoDB are able to be deployed with Atlas as soon as they're released—deploying recent versions to other services can be difficult or risky.
  • As the key supporters of the open source MongoDB project, the service runs in a highly optimized and performant manner, making it much easier than having to do the work internally.
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  • High performance
  • Integration with other tools and services
  • Big data projects oriented
  • High availability and scalability
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Cons
  • For someone new, it could be challenging using MongoDB Atlas. Some official video tutorials could help a lot
  • Pricing calculation is sometimes misleading and unpredictable, maybe better variables could be used to provide better insights about the cost
  • Since it is a managed service, we have limited control over the instances and some issues we faced we couldn't;'t know about without reaching out to the support and got fixed from their end. So more control over the instance might help
  • The way of managing users and access is somehow confusing. Maybe it could be placed somewhere easy to access
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  • The learning curve makes it a bit tricky to use at first.
  • Documentation is an aspect to improve, especially for people who are just starting out.
  • At the interface level, the user experience could be improved.
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Usability
I would give it 8. Good stuff: 1. Easy to use in terms of creating cluster, integrating with Databases, setting up backups and high availability instance, using the monitors they provide to check cluster status, managing users at company level, configure multiple replicas and cross region databases. Things hard to use: 1. roles and permissions at DB level. 2. Calculate expected costs
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One aspect to improve is the user experience since sometimes the steps to take are not clear and the user may need to review some of the actions before continuing with the next ones. Another aspect to improve is the documentation and support for developers who want to know the tool.
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Support Rating
We love MongoDB support and have great relationship with them. When we decided to go with MongoDB Atlas, they sent a team of 5 to our company to discuss the process of setting up a Mongo cluster and walked us through. when we have questions, we create a ticket and they will respond very quickly
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It offers good support for the implementation of solutions in the public and on-premises cloud and integration with other services such as Hashicorp Vault for data encryption. Also, it offers support for different compatible programming languages such as C, C ++, Java, as well as offering good support for the persistence of schema-free data and the possibility of saving data in memory.
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Alternatives Considered
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, which means less cost, like Redis for example
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At the performance level, it is similar to other solutions such as MongoDB and Percona Server for MySQL. and at the customization level, it offers better support for the development of specific solutions that seek good performance in transactions.
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Return on Investment
  • Positive - Faster provisioning so we don't have development teams waiting.
  • Positive - Automated backups and server management - eliminates need for dedicated DBAs.
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  • It offers a good alternative solution compared with other open source databases.
  • We have many resources at the documentation level and other tools that help the integration with different programming languages.
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