Category: Amazon DocumentDB

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. You can use the same MongoDB 3.6, 4.0, and 5.0 application code, drivers, and tools to run, manage, and scale workloads on Amazon DocumentDB without worrying about managing the underlying infrastructure. As a document […]

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fully managed native JSON document database that makes it easy and cost effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. It’s a best practice to create indexes to improve query performance especially when database size is very large. Without indexes, queries have to […]

In the fast-paced digital landscape, businesses rely heavily on their data store to manage critical information, making their seamless functioning indispensable. As the technology evolves, applications become mission critical, and so do the databases that power these enterprises. This necessitates periodic upgrades to maintain optimal performance and security. Although upgrades offer enhanced capabilities, the challenge […]

In this post, we discuss how you can build an Internet of Things (IoT) sensor network solution to process IoT sensor data through AWS IoT Core and store it with Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility). An IoT sensor network consists of multiple sensors and other devices like RFID readers made by various manufacturers, generating JSON […]

April 2025: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fully managed native JSON document database that makes it easy and cost effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. Amazon DocumentDB simplifies your architecture by providing built-in security best practices, continuous backups, and native […]

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, reliable, and fully managed database service. Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale MongoDB API-compatible databases in the cloud. With Amazon DocumentDB, you can run the same application code and use the same drivers and tools that you use with MongoDB API. Performance Insights adds to the existing Amazon DocumentDB monitoring features to illustrate your cluster performance and help you analyze any issues that affect it. With the Performance Insights dashboard, you can visualize the database load and filter the load by waits, query statements, hosts, or application. Performance Insights is included with Amazon DocumentDB instances and stores seven days of performance history in a rolling window at no additional cost.

This post describes a methodology to transform and migrate data from a relational database like Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL to a non-relational database like Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) using AWS Glue.

In this post, we show you how to integrate Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) with Amazon OpenSearch Service using AWS Lambda integration and run full-text search, fuzzy search, and synonym search on an artificially generated reviews dataset. Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB API-compatible […]

August, 2024: This post has been updated to reflect advances in technology and new features AWS released, to help you on your generative AI journey. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has captured our imagination and is transforming industries with its ability to answer questions, write stories, create art, and generate code. AWS customers are increasingly asking […]

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. In this post, we discuss how to create the data pipelines from Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose and publish changes to your destination store. Amazon DocumentDB (with […]