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  • "Cosmos should be cheaper. We actually intend to stop using it in the near future because the price is too high."
  • "There is a licensing fee."
  • "For the cloud, we don't pay for the license, but for the on-prem versions, we do pay."
  • "Cosmos DB is a PaaS, so there are no upfront costs for infrastructure. There are only subscriptions you pay for Azure and things like that. But it's a PaaS, so it's a subscription service. The license isn't perpetual, and the cost might seem expensive on its face, but you have to look at the upkeep for infrastructure and what you're saving."
  • "The price of Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB could be a bit lower."
  • "The cost is the biggest limitation of this solution."
  • "Azure is a pay as you go subscription."
  • "The RU's use case determines our license fees."

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    Questions from the Community
    What advice do you have for others considering Amazon DocumentDB?
    Top Answer: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… more »
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    What do you like most about Amazon DocumentDB?
    Top Answer:Migrations are easy using this product.
    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon DocumentDB?
    Top Answer:The pricing of the solution is pretty good. We don't find it to be too expensive.
    What do you like most about Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB?
    Top Answer:It's not a specific feature that I value, but the scalability of this system is the most impressive aspect.
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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Azure C...
    Top Answer:The RU's use case determines our license fees. It fluctuates based on how many RUs we have. It's not a fixed-line.
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    What needs improvement with Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB?
    Top Answer:The UI should be improved since if you provide the option to query directly when signing into the Azure portal, it makes no sense if you have such a poor UI for querying that you can't even feed the… more »
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    Also Known As
    Microsoft Azure DocumentDB, MS Azure Cosmos DB
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    Overview

    Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads.

    Amazon DocumentDB is designed from the ground-up to give you the performance, scalability, and availability you need when operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads at scale. In Amazon DocumentDB, the storage and compute are decoupled, allowing each to scale independently, and you can increase the read capacity to millions of requests per second by adding up to 15 low latency read replicas in minutes, regardless of the size of your data.

    Amazon DocumentDB is designed for 99.99% availability and replicates six copies of your data across three AWS Availability Zones (AZs). You can use AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) for free (for six months) to easily migrate their on-premises or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) MongoDB databases to Amazon DocumentDB with virtually no downtime.

    DocumentDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service built for fast and predictable performance, high availability, elastic scaling, global distribution, and ease of development. As a schema-free NoSQL database, DocumentDB provides rich and familiar SQL query capabilities with consistent low latencies on JSON data - ensuring that 99% of your reads are served under 10 milliseconds and 99% of your writes are served under 15 milliseconds. These unique benefits make DocumentDB a great fit for web, mobile, gaming, and IoT, and many other applications that need seamless scale and global replication.

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    Sample Customers
    Finra, The Washington Post, Freshop
    American Cancer Society, Exxon Mobil, Symantec
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Media Company14%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Comms Service Provider9%
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    Financial Services Firm29%
    Computer Software Company29%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Comms Service Provider14%
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    Computer Software Company20%
    Comms Service Provider14%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    Small Business14%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Small Business18%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise68%

    Amazon DocumentDB is ranked 6th in Managed NoSQL Databases while Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB is ranked 1st in Managed NoSQL Databases with 11 reviews. Amazon DocumentDB is rated 0.0, while Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB is rated 8.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB writes "It has various APIs that allow it to integrate with other solutions". Amazon DocumentDB is most compared with Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Timestream and Amazon Neptune, whereas Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB is most compared with Amazon DynamoDB, Google Cloud Bigtable, Amazon Neptune, Amazon Timestream and Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud.

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