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CrateDB 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

CrateDB
Ranking in Open Source Databases
17th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.0
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced
Ranking in Open Source Databases
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
NoSQL Databases (1st), Managed NoSQL Databases (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Open Source Databases category, the mindshare of CrateDB is 1.1%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is 5.6%, up from 4.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Open Source Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced5.6%
CrateDB1.1%
Other93.3%
Open Source Databases
 

Featured Reviews

FC
product owner at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Data platform has delivered real-time casino gameplay insights but still needs broader expertise
The best features CrateDB offers in my experience include many functionalities that allow you to purge data, maintain data, keep the database clean and essentially updated. CrateDB also allows us to store many records, and I think the performance is very strong compared to other databases or technologies. CrateDB's performance stood out for me as it allowed me to query results in less than seconds, which was optimal and enabled real-time analytics. I found it to be a very distributed SQL engine, which was beneficial considering our specific requirements. It supports multi-model and flexible schemas for structured and semi-structured data, JSON, time series for loads, and BLOBs, along with integrated performance improvements and faster ingestion than what I recall from other databases, plus better query optimizations. CrateDB has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to store several years of gameplay from our Asian customers, which involves millions and millions of records generated every day. Positively, we did not experience significant downtimes or outages, meaning the gameplay was not affected at all during these two years.
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

"CrateDB positively impacted my organization by reducing the time needed for processes, and its impressive scalability made it easy to start with one server and then horizontally scale to multiple nodes to retrieve data, which helped my company gain more customers."
"CrateDB has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to store several years of gameplay from our Asian customers, which involves millions and millions of records generated every day, and we did not experience significant downtimes or outages, meaning the gameplay was not affected at all during these two years."
"CrateDB fit into my project very well as it was an excellent database that allowed me to query analyses I did not think I would be able to perform."
"We find the query and speed very valuable."
"MongoDB is scalable and stable. The initial setup is very easy, and deployment and maintenance can be done by one person."
"One of the biggest benefits is the speed and flexibility of the documents, especially when it comes to modifications."
"The community is great if you have problem."
"I would recommend MongoDB because it is widely used by many organizations."
"The most valuable feature of MongoDB is the NoSQL database. In a SQL database, we need to join data together with a unique ID amongst other things, but in MongoDB, it's not required. We can directly receive all the information. The performance is very good. Additionally, they have frequent updates."
"We haven't had any issues with stability."
"It can handle a lot of files quickly."
 

Cons

"One area for improvement in CrateDB could be the command line interface, as sometimes it was not very easy to understand."
"CrateDB was good regarding scalability, though not excellent."
"CrateDB can be improved as it is not very popular, which means there are not many people dedicated or experienced with this particular technology, making it less usable or suitable for many companies."
"We find it difficult to incorporate MongoDB in some projects."
"We'd like technical support to respond faster to queries."
"The on-premises version of the solution is still pretty expensive, especially compared to the cloud version."
"I'd like to see an ID generator. It's very technical but I don't think it has one, so we have to go to great lengths to work around that."
"When third-party data warehouses are integrated, we are seeing some ETL job performance issues."
"They could provide more documentation and examples for adding pipeline stages."
"We find it difficult to incorporate MongoDB in some projects."
"The improvements could be made to intelligence to detect disk storage and prevent MongoDB from crashing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."
"Our customers pay for yearly licenses for MongoDB."
"The pricing is favorable if you opt to install MongoDB on an Amazon EC2 instance as you won't have to pay for the extra Atlas services and can instead manage the scaling yourself. This allows for a cost-effective solution and using MongoDB on a small scale, I have been able to utilize it for free."
"At the moment, all customers are using the community version."
"I don't know, but I have heard from people who procure it that it is much cheaper than Oracle."
"The solution is open source so is free."
"I only used the open-source version."
"There is an enterprise license and it could be cheaper. We are using the free open source version."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
University
23%
Computer Software Company
18%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Wholesaler/Distributor
8%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
University
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business36
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise38
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CrateDB?
CrateDB was free when I used it, so there was no pricing associated with it, as we used the free version.
What needs improvement with CrateDB?
I wanted to use CrateDB for visualization as well, but it did not provide what I needed, so we had to opt for Grafana for the visualization instead. Regarding needed improvements, I was quite able ...
What is your primary use case for CrateDB?
I used CrateDB for a one-off project from April to August in 2025. My main use case was a digital twin project designed to create a FIWARE-based application with a focus on optimizing the data mana...
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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Sample Customers

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