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MongoDB Enterprise Advanced vs Percona Server comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.0
Users report varied ROI from MongoDB Enterprise Advanced, with some benefiting and others finding measurement difficult, considering alternatives.
Sentiment score
6.0
Percona Server enhances ROI via cost savings, extended hardware lifespan, improved efficiency, and skill development, especially over MySQL.
Actually, with MongoDB, it's difficult to calculate the return on investment; it's too expensive for our use.
Architecte Cloud at Visiativ SA
I would say we see value in money and return on investment with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced.
Co-Founder at Vsigma IT Labs Pvt Ltd
What was projected for a three-year hardware lifespan extended to five years, yielding a return on investment of more than two times from migrating from MySQL to Percona Server.
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have seen a return on investment from using Percona Server, especially in terms of time, as time to resolve issues and time to get notified mean that time is a lot of money.
Senior Team Lead Systems Administrator at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.2
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced offers prompt support for paid users, while Community Edition relies on self-help and community resources.
Sentiment score
4.3
Percona Server relies on community forums for effective and friendly support, with users appreciating the comprehensive assistance provided.
We have received fairly good support whenever we reached out to the technical teams; they were prompt.
Co-Founder at Vsigma IT Labs Pvt Ltd
I think they resolved it, but it was very long.
Software Engineer at Pioneer Dev AI
Percona Server's customer support is excellent with very responsive and friendly service.
Freelancer at geelen.io
support was quite helpful in assisting us with archivers, replicators, and other commands.
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is praised for its high scalability and adaptability, despite some limitations and cost implications.
Sentiment score
8.1
Percona Server excels in scalable configuration, supporting growth with features like thread pooling and tools enhancing functionality.
In CosmoDB, the scalability is much better than with the MongoDB ReplicaSet models.
Architecte Cloud at Visiativ SA
MongoDB is highly scalable.
Head Of Data Science at Mjunction Services
Overall, on a scale of one to ten, I would rate MongoDB an eight; it's mostly because we're still running a monolithic environment on old hardware, so there are some limitations with read-write access.
General Manager at Lytwave
Percona Server's scalability is very strong, as it features thread pooling for over 10,000 connections.
Principal Data Infrastructure Engineer at Susquehanna International Group
We find it is easy to scale out and scale in using Percona Operator, Percona XtraDB toolkits, and PXC XtraDB Cluster.
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Percona Server's scalability meets our needs well, as we use it in Docker and scale the way we want with multiple MongoDB servers rather than one huge server.
Devops at a tech company
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.6
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is generally stable, reliable for backups, though performance may vary; rated seven to nine in stability.
Sentiment score
8.9
Percona Server is praised for stability and reliability, with rare OS-related issues, often rated eight out of ten.
It's pretty much stable; we have not faced any major challenges or difficulties with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced.
Co-Founder at Vsigma IT Labs Pvt Ltd
Percona Server is perfectly stable and reliable.
Devops at a tech company
Percona Server is very stable in my experience.
Senior Team Lead Systems Administrator at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
Percona Server is stable based on my experience.
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

MongoDB Enterprise Advanced can improve by enhancing security, support, integration, scalability, analytics, user interface, and mobile features.
Percona Server needs better disk space management, training resources, navigation, Docker support, and marketing to enhance user experience.
While solutions for other databases like SQL or PostgreSQL already exist, MongoDB requires additional integrations for developing AI solutions.
Head Of Data Science at Mjunction Services
We have not contracted the security options in our contract because they're too expensive; thus, we implement just encrypted databases and not the security pack.
Architecte Cloud at Visiativ SA
From the AWS standpoint, if robust integration and data warehouse integration specific tools are added in the advanced suite, that would definitely be helpful.
Co-Founder at Vsigma IT Labs Pvt Ltd
It would be helpful to clarify the metrics related to disk I/O latency so we could understand where our bottlenecks are.
Freelancer at geelen.io
I believe it would be great to have tools to deploy Percona Server in Docker so that we can split a huge database server into many small servers, which are easier to maintain and delegate to junior administrators.
Devops at a tech company
The introduction of materialized views in Percona Server would be a significant help, as this feature has been requested for a long time.
Principal Data Infrastructure Engineer at Susquehanna International Group
 

Setup Cost

MongoDB Enterprise Advanced offers cost-effective pricing with various editions and support, valued by small businesses for enterprise transition.
Percona Server offers cost-effective database management as a free open-source option with optional support, appealing to budget-conscious enterprises.
We use the free version of MongoDB, so there are no licensing costs.
Head Of Data Science at Mjunction Services
We have to pay approximately 2,000 euros per month for MongoDB.
Architecte Cloud at Visiativ SA
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.
Co-Founder at Vsigma IT Labs Pvt Ltd
What I appreciated was that they packaged support with the licenses, ensuring that we ended up with a working database.
Freelancer at geelen.io
we received the enterprise features for free
 

Valuable Features

MongoDB Enterprise Advanced provides scalable, stable, and flexible data management with advanced analytics, NoSQL features, and comprehensive security.
Percona Server offers scalability, high availability, open-source access, and cost savings, with tools for performance monitoring and management.
It offers flexibility in schema adaptation, allowing us to change the schema and add new data points.
Head Of Data Science at Mjunction Services
In ReplicaSet, it's acceptable, but if your workload needs more performance, and you must pass to a Sharding model, it becomes complicated in MongoDB; in Cosmos DB, however, it's simple.
Architecte Cloud at Visiativ SA
MongoDB has definitely helped us improve our network monitoring and reporting dashboard.
General Manager at Lytwave
Percona Kubernetes for MongoDB is a unique offering since no other companies provide a proper Kubernetes operator that supports deployment, maintenance, and backup.
Devops at a tech company
Percona Server has positively impacted my organization by allowing us to save a ton of money by not having to use RDS or Aurora in Amazon.
Director of Project Services at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
Whenever there is an issue, Percona Server notifies us, and we resolve the issue immediately.
Senior Team Lead Systems Administrator at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

MongoDB Enterprise Advanced
Ranking in Open Source Databases
7th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
NoSQL Databases (2nd), Managed NoSQL Databases (6th)
Percona Server
Ranking in Open Source Databases
10th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Open Source Databases category, the mindshare of MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is 6.5%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Percona Server is 2.4%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Open Source Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced6.5%
Percona Server2.4%
Other91.1%
Open Source Databases
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Pieter Geelen - PeerSpot reviewer
Freelancer at geelen.io
Reliable open-source database has supported our migration and improved e-commerce performance
Percona Server seems great to me overall. If I had to think of any small area for improvement for Percona Server, it would be around the proxy story. When adding a proxy to manage traffic better, we first tried SQL Proxy, but it never really worked for us, which was unfortunate because SQL Proxy offers better optimizations for read performance. We did have success with HAProxy, but it works on a network level, while SQL Proxy was designed to be SQL-aware and distribute parts of the query across the database cluster. The performance gain we were hoping for with SQL Proxy did not materialize, so we remained on the network level with HAProxy. Databases can be finicky regarding the performance they need. We had some disk I/O latency issues, which led us to use different types of nodes in our Kubernetes cluster where we provisioned Percona Server explicitly. There is a lot of IOPS happening under the hood, and while I suspect the application was not very efficient, it was also challenging to identify that we were experiencing performance issues due to disk performance. It would be helpful to clarify the metrics related to disk I/O latency so we could understand where our bottlenecks are.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Comms Service Provider
24%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business36
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise39
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

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.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Percona Server?
I was involved on the sideline when it comes to pricing, setup cost, and licensing. I think the pricing was good. What I appreciated was that they packaged support with the licenses, ensuring that ...
What needs improvement with Percona Server?
To improve Percona Server, I recommend more marketing because many people in the MySQL world know it, but there is a need to let others know that instead of MySQL, they can use Percona Server to en...
What is your primary use case for Percona Server?
Percona Server serves as our main database server handling user information, real-time GPS coordinates at a 30-second interval, and functions as our GIS database, reporting database, and secondary ...
 

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