A typical use case for MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is mostly for the database, storing our data.
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Document data has streamlined prototyping and now supports secure cloud deployments
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
I think the document-based approach is valuable. It's not SQL-based, so it's fairly easy to prototype. However, there is a con to that, which is that you don't have any migration. It's a double-edged sword.
We always use Redis for the in-memory storage engine with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced.
What needs improvement?
I don't really have a deep dive into it, but I see that MongoDB Enterprise Advanced has RAG and Vertex support. However, we really didn't use it because I think one thing also is that Prisma, the ORM that we use, doesn't have full support for MongoDB Enterprise Advanced. It really falls short of that because many developers are using Prisma instead of Mongoose or their underlying native drivers. I think one point is that their native drivers, or how you query data from their native tools, is just much more difficult.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using MongoDB Enterprise Advanced for over three years.
How are customer service and support?
I had technical support from MongoDB Enterprise Advanced over two years ago. I think they resolved it, but it was very long. We waited for a day or two.
How was the initial setup?
On Atlas, it can take about an hour, but on DigitalOcean, if I do it again, I'd say it's maybe two hours or so for setup.
I do it mostly alone for the installation.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I think it depends on the provider. For example, on DigitalOcean, they have strict routing. You have to whitelist an IP address, or you risk getting DDoS. Then if you're going for the Atlas one that MongoDB Enterprise Advanced provides, it's fairly easy to set up.
What other advice do I have?
I use the cloud version of the product. MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is from MongoDB, though I also use DigitalOcean as a third-party provider.
Maybe it's all more about preferences. I think MongoDB Enterprise Advanced has weak support on the ORM side, particularly if you're using Prisma. I think mostly the focus now on the tools we have is PostgreSQL. MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is not really used that much on our side for production.
It's not really a weak point. It's more of a double-edged sword. If you like document-based management databases and you don't want any migrations, then you go to MongoDB Enterprise Advanced. If you want more secure databases, then you use SQL.
On the account management and the way you secure the connection strings, I have utilized advanced security features with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced.
I think it's very expensive on the Atlas enterprise side. But if you go to other providers of MongoDB Enterprise Advanced, such as DigitalOcean, it may be harder to set up, but they can save you money. My review rating for MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is 8 out of 10.
Have managed customer transaction data efficiently and supported high-demand workloads with reliable performance
What is our primary use case?
Our main use cases for MongoDB Enterprise Advanced involve customer-related data and transactions related data; all the customer-facing data will be there. For the project we are using it in telecom. All the customer-related transaction data, their plans, their telecom plans, their consumption, and all those details will be there.
We are using MongoDB Enterprise Advanced in the telecom domain, and we are using this in the customer-facing area. All the customer-related data both for transactions and point of sales data are stored here.
What is most valuable?
Advanced security features are helpful; our database access security is done through IAM, which is an AWS service, and that IAM is integrated with the security manager with single sign-on process, which is also an AWS service. It's a combination of all that. This was integrated with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced security perspective; that's how we are taking care of the access-related security.
We do use the in-memory storage engine as part of performance improvement; these are already tuned.
It improves the performance depending on the load. When the database receives numerous requests, it has to perform. Those threshold limits we come to know, and then automatically these memory enhancement advanced features are configured so that during high demand periods, memory automatically increases to cater to the incoming advanced requests and volume of requests.
We are using real-time analytics and monitoring in MongoDB Enterprise Advanced; it is integrated. The existing advanced feature is integrated with our business analytics interface. All the various business intelligence reports are generated from that.
What needs improvement?
The integration between data warehouse could be improved. Nowadays, a lot of data is getting generated, so certain ETL flexible scripts with backend database integrations would be an improvement I could see. I will not be able to clearly say there is currently a deficiency there.
All our DBs are integrated with a backend data warehouse, not necessarily AWS. When third-party data warehouses are integrated, we are seeing some ETL job performance issues. It is a one-off scenario so we have not thoroughly done any troubleshooting on that. It could be platform or third-party related issue. From the AWS standpoint, if robust integration and data warehouse integration specific tools are added in the advanced suite, that would definitely be helpful.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced for almost more than three to four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's pretty much stable; we have not faced any major challenges or difficulties with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced. It is basically transactional from the platform standpoint. Mostly from the product heavy search during those times, which presents capacity planning challenges only, but from the platform standpoint, we have not observed any specific technical issues.
It's pretty much stable; I haven't received any complaints regarding stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is easy to scale.
How are customer service and support?
We did contact technical support for MongoDB Enterprise Advanced but it goes to a central team. We have received fairly good support whenever we reached out to the technical teams; they were prompt. Once in a while there was a bit of a delay in response but that depends on the technical issue. Overall, we are satisfied with the support.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
For MongoDB Enterprise Advanced, the initial setup is straightforward; it is not too complex. It is comfortable to implement.
What was our ROI?
I would say we see value in money and return on investment with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
For a small company, the cost of MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is reasonable, but for heavy data usage, we see a little bit of cost pressure but it's acceptable. I will not be able to elaborate on that right now; we are satisfied with the pricing.
What other advice do I have?
It's good; for first-time users, if somebody is looking for a good guaranteed database for all structured and unstructured data, MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is the way to go. On a scale of one to ten, I rate this solution an eight.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Open-source tool improves network monitoring and reporting efficiency
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
MongoDB has definitely helped us improve our network monitoring and reporting dashboard, so I would say it has impacted our operations positively overall.
What needs improvement?
I'm not sure about the documentation or the knowledge bases available for MongoDB because I don't interact with it at that level, but I would say it's minimal and could be improved.
I am not experienced with MongoDB enough to know any pain points or areas they could improve.
Nothing else comes to mind at this time that could be improved.
For how long have I used the solution?
We deployed MongoDB about five years ago and it has been in operation since then.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
I was not a part of the initial setup or deployment of MongoDB.
One person was involved with the setup team, and it took just a few days to deploy it.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Overall, on a scale of one to ten, I would rate MongoDB an eight; it's mostly because we're still running a monolithic environment on old hardware, so there are some limitations with read-write access.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
At this time, I'm only looking into Cisco or Linux or other solutions out of curiosity about possibly switching to it, but currently all that we use are LibreNMS and Splynx.
How was the initial setup?
From what I know, I would say the initial setup of MongoDB was pretty straightforward.
On LibreNMS, they have a template for setting up the environment that includes all the services, so MongoDB is just part of that template, meaning they weren't really too hands-on with setting up MongoDB itself.
What about the implementation team?
One person was involved with the setup team, and their job title was Network Operations Engineer.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I'm familiar with open-source databases such as MongoDB, and I don't think it's Grafana, but it's similar to Grafana, though I'm trying to think of what it's called.
I'm not entirely sure about the main differences between MongoDB and other open-source databases that I've used.
We haven't really delved too much into looking at comparisons for databases.
What other advice do I have?
MongoDB is not currently supporting our AI-driven projects nor do we use it along with AI at all.
I don't know how MongoDB's document-oriented model has benefited our management processes; that's beyond my expertise.
I don't have experience with QRadar or Auvik or similar products.
I'm familiar with some Linux tools, just things such as smokeping, which we use implemented in our LibreNMS environment.
I'm only an operator, so I don't actually spend a lot of time developing MongoDB, thus I'm not sure what the best features are.
I would rate MongoDB an eight out of ten.
Offers reliable engine for legacy needs but requires enhanced cost management and AI features
What is our primary use case?
I am not a partner of MongoDB; I am just a customer.
I do not use MongoDB in AI projects; only CosmoDB is used for AI projects, as MongoDB is an old pattern for us, and the new workload in AI is for a new pattern, which is CosmoDB for AI apps.
I would recommend MongoDB because it is a good pattern and a good product for legacy; for us, MongoDB is for legacy databases and legacy apps, and in this scope, it is a good pattern and a stable database engine; however, for new deployments and new applications, CosmoDB is a better engine.
What is most valuable?
My experience as a partner with Microsoft is very good because we have been a partner for three or four years, and it has been a very good experience.
MongoDB may have advantages over Cosmos DB perhaps in metrics because you can make some dashboards with database metrics, and there are many tools in MongoDB for dashboarding that are perhaps better than CosmoDB.
The dashboards in MongoDB have more functionalities; for example, you can create a dashboard with MongoDB database data, and it is simple to create, such as some sales dashboards, while I do not see this functionality to rapidly create such dashboards in CosmoDB.
What needs improvement?
While MongoDB is a good product, it is also an expensive product for support, and its scalability is acceptable, but the big problem with MongoDB is the cost.
For security in MongoDB, we work with encrypted databases by default, but we have not contracted the security options in our contract because it is too expensive, so we only implement encrypted databases without the security pack, which is very expensive for us; in security, we are at the first steps, just using encrypted databases.
I think additional features needed in MongoDB include perhaps vector databases, as I think they are not supported right now.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with MongoDB for five years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The scalability in MongoDB is limited because we only work with ReplicaSet with two servers, and in comparison, the scalability in CosmoDB is much better than the MongoDB ReplicaSet models; although you can set the auto-provisioning of a node in ReplicaSet, it is very expensive, and we have to work with manual scalability in MongoDB.
The performance of MongoDB is good, especially in a ReplicaSet model, but if you want to pass on to another model, for example, Sharding models, it is very complicated; in ReplicaSet, it is acceptable, but if your workload needs more performance, and you must pass to a Sharding model, it is complicated in MongoDB, whereas in CosmoDB, it is simple.
What was our ROI?
We have seen a little ROI, and we want to target CosmoDB for this return on investment because it is the better model for this feature; however, with MongoDB, it is difficult to calculate the return on investment, as it is too expensive for our use.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We pay approximately 2,000 euros per month for MongoDB.
What other advice do I have?
This solution receives a rating of 7 out of 10.
Transforms data flow with adaptable schema and smooth public cloud deployment
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
What needs improvement?
For how long have I used the solution?
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
How are customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
How was the initial setup?
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
What other advice do I have?
Leverages public cloud and ease to use but support response time requires improvement
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
What needs improvement?
If something is wrong on the cluster, then you need to contact the support team. The stability could be better.
For how long have I used the solution?
I used MongoDB for about a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's okay. It's acceptable. The stability could be better.
How are customer service and support?
If something is wrong on the cluster, you need to contact the support team. At first, when we were trying to build a cluster.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
What other advice do I have?
We rated MongoDB a seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Efficiently manage data with adaptable and user-friendly query functions
What is our primary use case?
I use MongoDB to connect our backend with the MongoDB database. Once connected, it allows us to store and manage our data efficiently.
It's particularly useful because MongoDB is a document-oriented database, so it doesn't require predefined schema definitions which MySQL does. I've used MongoDB in two to three projects.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of MongoDB is the predefined functions available when using Node.js. These functions simplify the query process, making it user-friendly and straightforward.
Additionally, MongoDB's flexibility in not requiring a predefined schema makes it adaptable to changes.
Another advantage is the straightforward deployment process, especially when deploying on our own server.
What needs improvement?
I haven't used MongoDB extensively, so I can't pinpoint a specific area that requires significant improvement at this time.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've used MongoDB in two to three projects.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I haven't faced any breakdowns or stability issues with MongoDB.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
MongoDB is easy to scale up or down, making it flexible for varying data needs.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
How was the initial setup?
At the start, connecting to the database via Compass or through a direct ID was a challenge. However, once the procedure is clarified, it becomes straightforward.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend MongoDB because it is widely used by many organizations. It is beneficial to learn MongoDB as it is a common requirement in various projects and companies.
I would rate MongoDB nine out of ten.
Flexible schema and replication with enhanced document handling
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
MongoDB allows us to store unstructured data with flexibility. It has enhanced our ability to file unemployment processes for individuals who cannot access the system to create a claimant ID.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of MongoDB include the flexible schema for storing data, its replication capabilities with high availability through a replica set setup, and horizontal scalability using sharding.
What needs improvement?
There was a need for integrating relational database capabilities, however, MongoDB has introduced a relational converter that allows conversion between SQL and NoSQL.
For how long have I used the solution?
We migrated to MongoDB back in 2019 during the COVID period.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
MongoDB scales horizontally using sharding, which is efficient and enhances performance by reducing load and increasing speed.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We used a traditional SQL database before moving to MongoDB. My exposure to MongoDB's ability to handle unstructured data was compelling.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was easy, largely due to my preparation for certification and the support from site reliability engineers and architects.
What about the implementation team?
The implementation was assisted by a site reliability engineer, and I prepared a playbook for guidance.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I am not entirely aware of the exact pricing details, however, MongoDB is a fairly valued product.
What other advice do I have?
MongoDB is an excellent choice for those seeking flexibility in storing unstructured data. Its replication, high availability, and horizontal scaling through sharding make it very valuable. Understanding JSON and gaining certification can greatly aid in leveraging MongoDB effectively.
I'd rate the solution ten out of ten.
Enhancing data management flexibility with document-oriented style and geospatial capabilities
What is our primary use case?
Our primary use case is mainly for web applications.
What is most valuable?
The document-based style is valuable as it allows for easy addition of sub-documents, unlike a relational database. It adds flexibility and facilitates data management. The geospatial index feature is also useful for dealing with latitude and longitude data.
What needs improvement?
The free tools, like MongoDB Compass, could be enhanced. This is especially relevant for the IDEs or similar tools.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using MongoDB for about ten years or so. I am not certain of the exact years, however, it has been since almost version three.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
MongoDB is quite stable. I haven't encountered any application-breaking problems with it. It handles backups well and doesn't have significant disadvantages.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate the scalability of MongoDB as eight out of ten. It is used for very large databases and is very useful, although we don't use it much.
How are customer service and support?
MongoDB has tech support and customer support, however, I have not personally contacted them.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is relatively easy, similar to setting up MySQL or other databases.
What was our ROI?
I am not sure about the return on investment as I don't have knowledge regarding the purchase and related aspects.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
MongoDB is free of charge. that said, there is also a paid version. We use both free and paid versions.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
What other advice do I have?
To start with MongoDB, I recommend reading their documentation, as it is quite sufficient.
I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.
Provides free packages for freshers
What is our primary use case?
I am basically a developer and also a freelancer. I take up a lot of freelance projects for which I use MongoDB. I use it for the database system on my website.
What is most valuable?
The tool provides some free packages for freshers, which is very good because a lot of beginners or students don't want to spend too much money on it. The tool is also user-friendly. I don't make any connections a lot of the time if I use MongoDB in my project.
What needs improvement?
I previously encountered some issues with the tool, which included downtime issues. Sometimes, the tool goes down temporarily. There are some stability issues in the product.
There are some problems with the tool's website, and it can get laggy, but otherwise, it is pretty good.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using MongoDB for more than a year. I am just a user of the tool.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The tool works most of the time, but it may go down at times. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The tool's scalability is pretty good. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
MongoDB is pretty popular, and we have a lot of documents and support available for it. The community is pretty big for it. I never faced any problems.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I have a little experience with SQL, but. I have major experience with MongoDB because it is well compared to other tools.
How was the initial setup?
The product's initial setup phase is easy.
The product's deployment phase can be done quickly. In a few minutes, we can create a database, get the APIs, and use it without any issues.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is normal. Price-wise, the product is not too much expensive.
What other advice do I have?
Though the replication features in the product are pretty good, I don't use them a lot.
I definitely recommend the tool to other people. A lot of startups can use it, and some people can already use it. If some students want to do some project, they can use the tool as its pricing is reasonable. The support and stability of the tool are also okay.
I rate the tool an eight out of ten.