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Amazon Timestream vs MongoDB Enterprise Advanced comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 2, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Timestream
Ranking in Managed NoSQL Databases
6th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
5
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 February 2026, in the Managed NoSQL Databases category, the mindshare of Amazon Timestream is 5.9%, down from 9.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is 11.0%, up from 3.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed NoSQL Databases Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced11.0%
Amazon Timestream5.9%
Other83.1%
Managed NoSQL Databases
 

Featured Reviews

Sushil Pandey - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at Tiger Analytics
It is helpful to get telemetry data from the devices in real-time
It is an easily scalable solution. When it comes to the retention period, if someone wants to change, they have to define it at the start. Later on, if users want to change it again, like, or increase the retention policy, then they have to create the table again and do so, and if it is not done, then we face problems. It will increase the retention, but when you try to insert a record or an older record that is not included in the range of your retention period, then you can face some problems and, like, it will throw some errors. The tool is scalable, but it should be defined at the start as to how much retention you want. For scalability, I rate the tool a six or seven out of ten.
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

"What I like best is that the tool is easy to collect and store data and is fast and scalable. The fully managed database is easy to understand."
"Using Amazon Timestream has been seamless due to its integration within the AWS ecosystem and ease of use for the engineering team."
"If you drop a message, the solution's technical support will definitely reply."
"The best things about Amazon Timestream are it's maintenance-free, customizable, and has no lag issues. It's always real-time."
"You can quickly aggregate data from the last ten years with Amazon Timestream."
"MongoDB is simpler to learn and implement than traditional SQL solutions like MySQL."
"MongoDB has definitely helped us improve our network monitoring and reporting dashboard, so I would say it has impacted our operations positively overall."
"We find the query and speed very valuable."
"The geospatial index feature is useful for dealing with latitude and longitude data."
"The aggregation framework is really good, allowing a developer to build very complex queries."
"The solution does not hold data in tabular format like SQL does but rather clusters data so that it can link on a large scale."
"It has visible benefits, actually, in terms of price of ownership if you compare it to, for example, Oracle."
"We decided to work with MongoDB as its interface is easier to understand and more universal."
 

Cons

"The solution could be improved by making it easier for new graduates like me to use. Better explanations of queries and how to use them with other AWS services would help."
"The tool could be improved by increasing the batch size from one hundred records to five hundred or a thousand to speed up indexing."
"Arranging the database schema is a bit challenging."
"There are disadvantages when it comes to time series databases since you can't delete anything from Amazon Timestream data."
"There are certain features that we would like to see added and we are collaborating with the product teams on these areas."
"More stable indexes would be helpful in a future release. That's been an issue for some time. I don't know if it's been fixed now but we transitioned to it because we needed a search index to be able to search for things and if that goes or starts disappearing, we have to move away from that solution. I don't know if they fixed it, last time I had this issue was three years ago so they might have solved it."
"The solution could have more integration."
"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. There should be some kind of midway where a person who is coming from an Oracle background can write a query and get a response by using something like a select * statement or other such things. There should be some way for MongoDB to interpret these commands rather than making a person learn MongoDB commands and writing them. I struggled while writing these MongoDB commands. I had not seen such queries before. It was pretty difficult to get them. This is one of the areas where it would help from the improvement standpoint."
"The free tools, like MongoDB Compass, could be enhanced."
"MongoDB can improve large-size video or media frame operations. There are a lot of customers who want to upload media frames and video games but there is some difficulty. In MongoDB, we are looking out for solutions that are for large-size media files that can be saved and navigated efficiently."
"There can be stability issues."
"The solution should more easily integrate with custom code."
"MongoDB should not be used for reporting, analytics, or number-crunching tasks."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We pay over $10 million a year to Amazon."
"For 1GB of data, the solution charges $ 0.01 in the US region."
"Amazon Timestream's pricing seems manageable to me."
"We don't see high costs with Amazon Timestream, which may vary by company."
"It's open-source."
"It's a community edition, so we do not pay anything."
"I only used the open-source version."
"MongoDB is a bit expensive compared to its competitors."
"The pricing is normal. Price-wise, the product is not too much expensive."
"MongoDB's pricing is not reasonable, but it is not as expensive as the others."
"I currently use the solution's community edition which is free."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
6%
 

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 needs improvement with Amazon Timestream?
We are working on a few open change requests with the engineering teams on AWS's side. There are certain features that we would like to see added and we are collaborating with the product teams on ...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Timestream?
We use Amazon Timestream as a data historian for IT data. It stores all individual measurements of our customers' IoT devices for a certain period of time, allowing them to perform time-series-base...
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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