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Amazon Timestream vs MongoDB Atlas comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 11, 2026

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
7th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
MongoDB Atlas
Ranking in Managed NoSQL Databases
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Database as a Service (DBaaS) (4th), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (7th), AI Software Development (14th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Managed NoSQL Databases category, the mindshare of Amazon Timestream is 4.8%, down from 6.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MongoDB Atlas is 14.9%, up from 7.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed NoSQL Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MongoDB Atlas14.9%
Amazon Timestream4.8%
Other80.3%
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.
Lintz Veloso - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a government with 11-50 employees
Developers have benefited from flexibility and performance but pricing has needed further attention
I am only familiar with databases and applications. I am from the development team and I am a user of database and cloud but I don't know the infrastructure. As a user, I deal with the Oracle Database. I know the organization has a license with the product. We don't utilize real-time analytics with MongoDB Atlas. I don't use MongoDB Atlas directly, so I don't know how it can be improved. I would place MongoDB Atlas at a medium level. I would rate it at a six or seven. I believe MongoDB Atlas can improve a little. My overall review rating for this product is six out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The best things about Amazon Timestream are it's maintenance-free, customizable, and has no lag issues. It's always real-time."
"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."
"You can quickly aggregate data from the last ten years with Amazon Timestream."
"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."
"In my previous company, the product allowed us to build a database in a highly regulated environment with the ability to get distributed storage, and we used MongoDB as a distributed storage to set up this environment for a critical business application with millions of dollars."
"The most useful feature is the management of the backup."
"The product is simple to use and enterprise-ready. It is also open-source."
"Its most valuable features are high availability and zero maintenance."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"It is a great product."
"The most valuable feature of MongoDB Atlas is it's seamless when working with a lot of different systems. Additionally, it is able to adjust the data based on the data being received."
"The product allows us to easily set up and store large amounts of unstructured data."
 

Cons

"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."
"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 UI can be difficult to understand."
"I would like a better dashboard. It could be made a bit more user friendly."
"The initial setup is not too difficult but can be somewhat tricky."
"The biggest challenge we all have is an application layer level. One node is sitting in the APAC region, another node is sitting in the US and UK region. The seamless replication has to be lightning fast, but we haven't tested the scalability yet."
"One improvement that I would like to see is a feature to export changes made in the environment, such as creating a new user."
"The installation was straightforward except for the network hardware because it was a little complicated to make the connection with our VPC on AWS."
"MongoDB Atlas should support containerization."
"It would be better if there were more integration capabilities with other products."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For 1GB of data, the solution charges $ 0.01 in the US region."
"We don't see high costs with Amazon Timestream, which may vary by company."
"Amazon Timestream's pricing seems manageable to me."
"We pay over $10 million a year to Amazon."
"For our service, it was around 300 to 600 euros per month, which was acceptable for our customers."
"The tool is free since it's an open-source product."
"We pay for a license."
"The pricing and licensing is great."
"MongoDB Atlas is more cost-effective than Amazon DocumentDB. It also has a pay-as-you-go pricing model. Apart from the standard licensing cost, you must also pay to get MongoDB Atlas technical support, which is expensive."
"The price of MongoDB Atlas is highly affordable."
"The solution is fairly priced."
"The pricing is not that expensive, but it can be, especially when we have deployed it across multiple zones."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Educational Organization
8%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Construction Company
10%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise23
 

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for MongoDB Atlas?
Pricing-wise, MongoDB Atlas has a pay-as-you-go strategy. The documentation for MongoDB is very good; I have learned multiple things through reading it. The free tier is M0 for $0, which is suitabl...
What needs improvement with MongoDB Atlas?
MongoDB Atlas can be improved in a few ways. While the platform is feature-rich, some advanced configuration and performance tuning options have a learning curve, especially for teams that are new ...
What is your primary use case for MongoDB Atlas?
My main use case for MongoDB Atlas is for storing and managing semi-structured or rapidly evolving data where schema flexibility is important. A good example of how I have used MongoDB Atlas for ma...
 

Also Known As

No data available
Atlas, MongoDB Atlas (pay-as-you-go)
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Wells Fargo, Forbes, Ulta Beauty, Bosch, Sanoma, Current (a Digital Bank), ASAP Log, SBB, Zebra Technologies, Radial, Kovai, Eni, Accuhit, Cognigy, and Payload.
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