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Amazon DocumentDB vs MongoDB Enterprise Advanced comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon DocumentDB
Ranking in Managed NoSQL Databases
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
4.0
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced
Ranking in Managed NoSQL Databases
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (6th), NoSQL Databases (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Managed NoSQL Databases category, the mindshare of Amazon DocumentDB is 7.4%, down from 10.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is 10.9%, up from 4.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed NoSQL Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced10.9%
Amazon DocumentDB7.4%
Other81.7%
Managed NoSQL Databases
 

Featured Reviews

Hemanth Perepi - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Trianz
Supports high-level data management and secure migration
Over the past few months, I’ve been working closely with a managed database service, and a few features stood out as game changers for me and my team: MongoDB Compatibility – The seamless migration experience was a huge win. No need to rewrite code or change drivers, which meant less friction and faster adoption for our developers. Fully Managed Service – Patching, backups, and monitoring are all automated. This freed up our team to focus on building applications instead of managing infrastructure. Separation of Compute & Storage – The flexibility to scale compute and storage independently gave us both cost savings and better performance optimization. Multi-AZ High Availability – Automatic failover and cross-AZ replication gave us peace of mind with improved uptime and disaster recovery. Performance at Scale – Even with large datasets, performance has remained consistent. Read replicas and efficient indexing have been especially valuable for read-heavy workloads. Security – End-to-end encryption, VPC isolation, and IAM integration made enterprise-level security feel straightforward and reliable. Backup & Recovery – Point-in-time recovery with automated backups made data protection effortless.
FG
Architecte Cloud at Visiativ SA
Offers reliable engine for legacy needs but requires enhanced cost management and AI features
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.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Amazon DocumentDB is a simple solution."
"Efficient data retrieval with millisecond fetch times sets it apart from RDS."
"Migrations are easy using this product."
"There are many benefits to using Amazon DocumentDB, for example, regarding the price, you can start with a small database and when you need more performance, you can grow the database."
"Its speed has had the most significant impact on our projects. For starters, we used it for its flexibility. With DocumentDB, you're not tied to a rigid structure like you are with Aurora or other relational databases. This makes it great for startups."
"Efficient data retrieval with millisecond fetch times sets it apart from RDS."
"MongoDB's dashboards offer more functionalities and allow you to create a dashboard with MongoDB database data."
"The most valuable feature is the speed of MongoDB."
"It is really a pretty easy product to use. It's very reliable, it's proven."
"MongoDB is relatively fast compared to relational databases."
"like its performance and the stability. It's very stable and, performance-wise, it's really great."
"It stores historical data with ease. For example, if you are a healthcare member, then you will have multiple records of visits to the doctors. To store such data in Oracle Database, you have to create many records. You might also have duplication problems because your records are going in again and again, because of which the data warehouse and the maintenance cost will be huge. MongoDB is comparatively lightweight. It is a JSON extract. Once you define a schema and extract it, you can push all the relationships in any way you want. It is easier to define and get different types of transactions into MongoDB. It is also easier to set it up as compared to other solutions. MongoDB is a NoSQL database, which means it is a document DB in which you can store documents that you created in BSON. It is pretty fast in response. It is faster than relational databases because it does not define any primary keys, secondary keys, tertiary keys, and all those kinds of things."
"One of the most valuable features is the ability to Text Search can be used anywhere and anytime."
"It's super easy to develop a couple of solutions for clients with MongoDB, like a quick web page with no clear data structure that they need to spin up quickly to validate some sort of MDTP."
 

Cons

"Improvements for Amazon DocumentDB could focus on enhancing high availability, sharding methods, replication techniques, and automatic failover in case the primary goes down, as continuous backup is an excellent option for disaster recovery."
"The technical support could be improved."
"There's a bit of a learning curve at the beginning."
"One possible improvement could be a hybrid database solution, where parts of the application leverage a relational database alongside DocumentDB. If a system were heavily relational in nature, a database like PostgreSQL might be a good fit."
"However, when you need more volume or more registers, it becomes complicated because the performance adjustments and tuning are challenging."
"Improvements for Amazon DocumentDB could focus on enhancing high availability, sharding methods, replication techniques, and automatic failover in case the primary goes down, as continuous backup is an excellent option for disaster recovery."
"At the start, connecting to the database via Compass or through a direct ID was a challenge."
"MongoDB is a very useful and convenient choice, but sometimes for more complex projects, there are certain niche requirements that appear, so using a different tool could be beneficial. It raises the complexity of the architecture, but it could be beneficial to the world, the features, the ease of the features which are being implemented."
"Its security features can be better. Sometimes, my higher authority says that we are not going to use MongoDB because it doesn't provide that much security for the RDBMS or relational data that we use for transactions. Instead of MongoDB, we will use Oracle Database because for a transactional service, you have to rely on RDBMS ACID properties. I would love to work on MongoDB by using my mobile phone. When I am working remotely or traveling and have some instances deployed on my server, I should be able to check through my mobile whether all the data is being pulled. GitHub has a similar feature, where it lets you read from the laptop, and you can also pull and push with your mobile phone. I would request MongoDB to provide such a feature. Basically, I want a mobile version for both iOS and Android versions."
"MongoDB should be more stable, and support should be more efficient."
"MongoDB could improve by not having so many updates and different versions."
"It would be good to have scalability for clusters. For example, if we have three clusters, we should be able to increase to five clusters if required. I am not sure if such a feature is currently there. I hope there is good documentation for this."
"The performance of the solution could be improved."
"The product's data consistency could be more efficient than traditional SQLs."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"If you want support with the solution you will need to purchase a license and not use the open-source version. The license is a little expensive."
"This is an open-source solution."
"The product is affordable."
"I currently use the solution's community edition which is free."
"The pricing is normal. Price-wise, the product is not too much expensive."
"MongoDB has a free version. You can also buy the enterprise edition, which is cheaper than Oracle."
"You only have to pay for the paid version, not the open-source version."
"It's open-source."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Educational Organization
7%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business35
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise38
 

Questions from the Community

What advice do you have for others considering Amazon DocumentDB?
Amazon DocumentDB offers us many useful features. It is definitely a solution that an organization in need of comprehensive and effective document management should invest its money into. We are im...
What do you like most about Amazon DocumentDB?
Its speed has had the most significant impact on our projects. For starters, we used it for its flexibility. With DocumentDB, you're not tied to a rigid structure like you are with Aurora or other ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon DocumentDB?
The pricing and licensing of Amazon DocumentDB is managed directly by the client team with the vendor, so I am not involved in that aspect.
What do you like most about MongoDB?
MongoDB's approach to handling data in documents rather than traditional tables has been particularly beneficial.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for MongoDB?
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 th...
What needs improvement with MongoDB?
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 ...
 

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