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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
8th
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
6.7
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (8th), NoSQL Databases (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Managed NoSQL Databases category, the mindshare of Amazon DocumentDB is 5.9%, down from 7.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is 11.1%, up from 11.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed NoSQL Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced11.1%
Amazon DocumentDB5.9%
Other83.0%
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.
AB
Co-Founder at Vsigma IT Labs Pvt Ltd
Have managed customer transaction data efficiently and supported high-demand workloads with reliable performance
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"Amazon DocumentDB is a simple solution."
"The product is fast and easy to use."
"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."
"Migrations are easy using this product."
"MongoDB is a document database that we use for internet applications, logs, and all kinds of things that need quick answers, especially in the document area."
"MongoDB's best features are scalability, document management, and data security."
"The aggregation framework is really good, allowing a developer to build very complex queries."
"Sharding is an excellent feature of MongoDB."
"They provide a high level of technical support."
"It is convenient to use because we can do manipulations with the JSON data that we get, there are a lot of joins and associations with MongoDB, which makes it easy to use for us, and there is also a lot of transaction-related support from MongoDB."
"It facilitates the generation of heatmaps for graphical data analysis."
"It's easy to add and remove things in MongoDB. You can alter the tables. MongoDB is faster at reading, slower at writings."
 

Cons

"The primary driver for our planned switch to Snowflake is that this client has to work with large JSON objects, each between four to six GB, and the schema is very wide with substantial free text."
"The technical support could be improved."
"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."
"There's a bit of a learning curve at the beginning."
"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."
"A normal Oracle or database tester will take some time to gear up to MongoDB because the way of writing queries is different in MongoDB."
"It could be more stable. It would be better if it were more user-friendly like Oracle, which is very easy."
"There was a need for integrating relational database capabilities, however, MongoDB has introduced a relational converter that allows conversion between SQL and NoSQL."
"The documentation for MongoDB is not very good and should be improved."
"We'd like information about client onboarding experience and success stories. It would help to have something to show to internal stakeholders."
"There should be better integration with other databases."
"The price can always be better. I mean, we are a big corporation so it is quite expensive for us."
"The solution could have more integration."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution is open source so is free."
"I currently use the solution's community edition which is free."
"The pricing is normal. Price-wise, the product is not too much expensive."
"You only have to pay for the paid version, not the open-source version."
"There is an annual subscription for the use of this solution."
"The product is affordable."
"I believe that MongoDB is free."
"At the moment, all customers are using the community version."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
14%
Computer Software Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business36
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise39
 

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 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 needs improvement with Amazon DocumentDB?
We do not utilize Amazon DocumentDB's compatibility with MongoDB APIs because we do not have MongoDB in this client environment. There are current discussions about phasing out from AWS's Amazon Do...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for MongoDB?
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 tha...
What needs improvement with MongoDB?
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 O...
What is your primary use case for MongoDB?
A typical use case for MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is mostly for the database, storing our data.
 

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Sample Customers

Finra, The Washington Post, Freshop
Facebook, MetLife, City of Chicago, Expedia, eBay, Google
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