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MongoDB
Flexible NoSQL Database Solution
4.5
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What is MongoDB?

MongoDB is a NoSQL database that supports scalable, and high-performance data storage solutions. The platform’s automatic sharing features combined with real-time analytics and horizontal scalability empower businesses with efficient data management.

Company MongoDB, Inc.
Year founded 2007
Company size 1001-5000 employees
Headquarters New York, NY, USA
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Last updated: November 21, 2024
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512 MongoDB Reviews
4.5 out of 5
Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Mar 25, 2015
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Overall Rating:
3.5
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What do you like best about MongoDB?

As a software developer I like the query interface and good client library support for MongoDB. I like both writing queries in JSON and receiving results in JSON. I also think the aggregation framework is awesome.

What do you dislike about MongoDB?

At first I found it difficult to find good resources for information on how to solve MongoDB Related problems. But, this improved with time as more people adopted the software and MongoDB improved the docs. For a while in version 2.x I had trouble figuring out what docs were relevant for the version I was using. That was more likely my problem.

What problems is MongoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

I found MongoDB to be useful as a document store. However, schema design is very very important. MongoDB world was very helpful in understanding good schema design. This was incredibly helpful to me.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jul 15, 2022
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Overall Rating:
3.0
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What do you like best about MongoDB?

Most Popular NoSQL database. It revolutionised the way we looked at databases.

What do you dislike about MongoDB?

It is difficult to understand and grab hold of first for people coming from purely SQL and relational database.

What problems is MongoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Databases has been always visualised as big tables with multiple columns and endless number of rows, but MongoDB came up with the unique way of storing data in form of documents and objects.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 26, 2018
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Overall Rating:
3.0
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"Easy to setup, harder to maintain"
What do you like best about MongoDB?

It is really easy to setup a new mongodb cluster.

What do you dislike about MongoDB?

Sometimes the agent can bug and is unable to update itself, and that’s a huge problem because after everything goes wrong.

What problems is MongoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

It’s ability to create and manage a mongodb cluster easily. The benefits are mostly time gain.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jun 26, 2018
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Overall Rating:
3.0
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"Works but we are stretching some limits"
What do you like best about MongoDB?

Stability - we seldom see problems in our use case

What do you dislike about MongoDB?

Need some of the new features. Need a better story for low-latency global access..

What problems is MongoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Large complex database of 3D design entities

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jun 21, 2017
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Overall Rating:
3.0
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What do you like best about MongoDB?

Sharding and Load-Balancing. MongoDB queries can be much faster in some cases, especially since your data is typically all in once place and can be retrieved in a single lookup

What do you dislike about MongoDB?

No Joins, Concurrency Issues, Memory Usage

What problems is MongoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

One database that allows users to maintain the benefits of relational databases while incorporating innovations of NoSQL databases

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jul 02, 2015
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Overall Rating:
3.0
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"Easy to use and setup, but wary of how it will scale and perform in the future."
What do you like best about MongoDB?

Easy of administration and setup, blows others out of the water.

What do you dislike about MongoDB?

Mongodb writes are unsafe by the nature that they are done.

What problems is MongoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Move away from tar based persistent storage.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jul 24, 2018
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Overall Rating:
2.5
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"MongoDb from a devops perspective"
What do you like best about MongoDB?

Document oriented Easy to use and onboard

What do you dislike about MongoDB?

Multi-region deploments using open source version is not easy Terraform integration seems to be non existent

What problems is MongoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using this for our business planning applications due to flexible nature of schema

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jul 13, 2018
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Overall Rating:
2.5
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"Scalable but difficult to establish schema and relations on"
What do you like best about MongoDB?

We chose this DB for it's scalability and flexibility for a big data platform. It can run multiple nodes as one instance.

What do you dislike about MongoDB?

Quickly ran into issues with data integrity and dependency handling.

What problems is MongoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Scalability and robustness. We can deploy multiple servers when running out of disk space, and multiple nodes so that if one server goes down, we still have data.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jun 21, 2017
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Overall Rating:
2.5
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"Exciting ideas"
What do you like best about MongoDB?

How mongodb allows developers to do more in less time and fewer lines of code

What do you dislike about MongoDB?

Huge learning curve for schema design and getting it right

What problems is MongoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Weather analytics related to crop portfolio risk analysis

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jun 27, 2018
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Overall Rating:
2.0
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"Nice for devs, killing operators"
What do you like best about MongoDB?

JSON like console language eases a lot the daily life

What do you dislike about MongoDB?

Privilege escalation, PRODUCT-101 a lot of small things that are really annoying, e.g. privilege escalation

What problems is MongoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

additioal database for our database portfolio

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Apr 06, 2015
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Overall Rating:
1.5
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"Great for developers, terrible for mission critical production loads"
What do you like best about MongoDB?

Very developer friendly. Easy to get started.

What do you dislike about MongoDB?

Would not recommend for large installations due to low priority of data integrity.

What problems is MongoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Highly available blob storage for everything from micro databases to petabyte sized databases.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 21, 2022
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Overall Rating:
1.0
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"Abysmal Support | Account Creation Issues"
What do you like best about MongoDB?

I was unable to fully experience MongoDB's offerings before running into the wall of canned condescending responses from "support" staff.

What do you dislike about MongoDB?

- Creating an account with Github is bugged/glitched - No ability to add the above integration(s) after creating an account via email - Account with freshly created database seems to just, disappear, and password can't be recovered. - Created a redundant account with the same exact email address, hoping it would integrate, it did not. And support staff cannot find it. - Support for free tier is VERY basic and constantly try to upsell you to paid support for a free DB tier, so if you run into account creation issues, before you can even get started, you will be asked to pay for support, making their "free tier" and "trial phase" a complete joke, or a scam, depending on your point of view. TLDR: MongoDB staff will try to upsell you constantly pushing paid support plans while you're trying to just get logged in or recover your account. As soon as you create your account, be sure to copy down your "organization URL" because it's one of the things they will ask for in the event you can't log in. They will ask you to pay for support to delete an account as well. My advice? Use something else. Lots of noSQL options out there.

What problems is MongoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

They didn't. They actually wasted quite a bit of my time and created more problems they wanted to be paid to solve.