What do you like best about the product?

simplicity, ease of use, scaling, sharding, data management

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes the database clusters take time while loading the data

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have used MongoDB Atlas to build IoT applications as well as payment systems.

What do you like best about the product?

By using the mongodb atlas cloud it is very easy to scale up on one click and it is very easy to integrate with application and for the day to day usage it is very easy .It is customer support and user interface is soo easy to manage.

What do you dislike about the product?

In dont like about the altas is that that pricing comes expensive as a data and cluster. cold start issue for the paused cluster.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is remove the complexity of the database server and the mangement and one best thing about it that it provides the automatic backups and high availablity for the poducation grade system this features benifit use alot.

What do you like best about the product?

It good as it store different types of data structures, different types of documents as it as good scalability and has good performance.

What do you dislike about the product?

It doesn't support multi document ACID and contains high memory usage which has data inconsistencies sometimes.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helped me in doing the complex projects with the multiple documents and is flexible and has high availability and performance.

What do you like best about the product?

The mongodb GUI is very good to view the collection and manage to the databases

What do you dislike about the product?

The GUI of we cannot see the user details

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy to edit collections

What do you like best about the product?

I have nothing good to say about MongoDB Atlas.

What do you dislike about the product?

My story with Mongo began when I started a new software position, and they had a legacy version of their software product using Atlas.

Compared to our other infrastructure bills, Mongo was significantly higher for the amount of compute and storage we used ($3K per month). This is a managed service, so you would expect to pay a premium. Ok, sure, but then I expect great functionality, performance, and support.

The main problem began with Mongo when we needed to delete some data because they tie the CPU and memory tiers to storage size, so we were overpaying. Our application would run fine off an M10 dedicated cluster (the smallest tier), but it had automatically scaled to an M50 because of storage. This is already a bit disappointing because they are forcing customers to pay for more compute and memory than they need.

So we started deleting some data, but then we ran into problems. The data deletion process was really slow and also slowed our entire cluster down, causing lag and performance issues for our end users. But hang on, this makes no sense because we are paying for more CPU and RAM than we need, so why would we have this issue?

It took us three months to delete 500GB of data. In the meantime, our bill remained the same because you can't claim the space back without compacting the database. Ok, fine. So we ran compact(), but we only freed ~100GB on the secondary clusters.

Support gave us a script to run that can see how much storage can be freed.

In the end, we had to activate an expensive additional support plan costing us $500 USD per month to get support to run a re-sync command. This should have taken their support people 10 minutes, but instead, they mucked us around going back and forth on the ticket, taking three weeks to resolve.

A year later, we needed to delete some more data. We spent another five months deleting 800GB of data. Then we ran compact() and freed 300GB. Where is our other 500GB? We contacted some humans at Mongo, who really couldn't do much other than suggest we get funding to cover the $500 support for one month. Yes, we got the $500 credit, but when I went to reactivate support, it was going to charge us for three months for one month because Mongo retroactively bills you for three months when you reactivate. Wow, we started in a bad place, now I'm beyond frustrated; this is daylight robbery.

To this day, I am still fighting to reclaim some storage, but at this point, I'm going to recommend to our CEO that our dev team put some effort into moving away completely from Mongo.

I also need to mention that Mongo recommended we use their online archive features, but when we crunched the numbers, it was still quite expensive, and we would have to do significant work to make our application work between the regular clusters and online archive. So it was significantly more logical to just put the data in AWS S3, then delete it in Mongo.

If I can summarize my experience with Mongo, and I acknowledge mine is probably quite different to most, here it is:

Overpriced for the performance you get

Sneaky billing model where they tie CPU and memory to storage

Terrible and expensive support

Sneaky extra charges on reactivating support

Bad support escalation solutions - they couldn't just turn on free 'support'

Poor database performance

Slow delete operations

Ecosystem lock-in

Forced upgrades - no LTS releases

Let me sum it up this way: if your compact() command does not free up the space that is available on your cluster, then provide the customer with free support to do so.

I hate dealing with Mongo. Nothing is simple, everything is expensive, and the performance sucks.

If you are considering using Mongo, find something else. Even if you have to take a bit more time to learn AWS Dynamo, S3, or Aurora, you should do it; you will save time and money in the long run.

Mongo, you deserve this negative review. I have given you plenty of opportunities to resolve things and have escalated issues, but you just don't care.

We wanted to move away from Mongo before; now I can't get rid of it fast enough.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

A simple managed database to get up and moving quickly as a developer.

What do you like best about the product?

Portability, easy to fire up, and requires less resource

What do you dislike about the product?

So far nothing I have found that concerns me about mongo

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use MongoDB to save embedding for my chat model

What do you like best about the product?

MongoDB's simplicity is amazing. You can store data how you like, amend it as per your preferences, and implement the changes as you want to.

What do you dislike about the product?

Only one thing, the collections are not updated automatically.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps in making changes on the live projects. It helps in setting up our backends of our projects and we can fix the issues in the application on real time basis.

What do you like best about the product?

It's scalability and incorporating latest trends in the product

What do you dislike about the product?

May be the cost. I think cost should be reduced

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are hosting our product embedding/vectors in the vector index that is being used to find the most similar vectors quickly

What do you like best about the product?

It is NOSQL database which is easy to use and installation. It is secured and easily manageble. It is cost effective.

What do you dislike about the product?

The sources regarding this are very less according to other database. Althought it is easy to use but sometimes need some support.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

I used it for saving databases of CRM project of clients. With this I am able to access database remotely. And I can manage easily. With this database we can save unstructed data without any issue.

What do you like best about the product?

Fast, intuitive, great documentation, ease of use, ease of ramp up, many programming languages support out of the box, fast and reliable

What do you dislike about the product?

Vast documentation that is very hard to navigate and find the info you need, very expensive support plans

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have numerous clusters and we no longer need to maintain them ourselves.