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Amazon Timestream vs MongoDB Atlas comparison

 

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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
7.0
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
Database as a Service (DBaaS) (3rd), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (2nd), AI Software Development (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Managed NoSQL Databases category, the mindshare of Amazon Timestream is 5.0%, down from 8.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MongoDB Atlas is 14.4%, up from 6.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed NoSQL Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MongoDB Atlas14.4%
Amazon Timestream5.0%
Other80.6%
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.
Varuns Ug - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Developer at NIT
Flexible document workflows have accelerated schema changes and simplified evolving data models
MongoDB Atlas currently has almost all the features we require, but there are some points where I see certain improvements. One area is cost visibility and optimization. Since pricing is largely based on storage and cluster size, it can sometimes be difficult to predict or optimize cost without deeper insights. More granular cost breakdowns or recommendations would be helpful. Another area I can mention is performance tuning transparency. While MongoDB Atlas provides monitoring and suggestions, debugging deeper issues like slow queries, index efficiency, or shard imbalance can sometimes require more control or visibility. Cost optimization, deeper performance insight, and easier scaling decisions would make MongoDB Atlas even more powerful. A couple of additional areas where MongoDB Atlas could improve are integrations and developer experience. For integrations, while MongoDB Atlas supports major cloud providers and tools, deeper and more seamless integration with observability patterns would make troubleshooting distributed systems easier. On the documentation side, while it is generally good, some advanced topics like sharding strategies, performance tuning, and real-world scaling patterns could benefit from more practical guidance. Additionally, a better local-to-cloud development experience, making it easier to replicate production-like MongoDB Atlas environments locally, would help developers test performance and scaling scenarios more efficiently.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"If you drop a message, the solution's technical support will definitely reply."
"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."
"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."
"You can quickly aggregate data from the last ten years with Amazon Timestream."
"As a tester, it was easy to validate data, access data, make active run queries against it, and retrieve data from it."
"I would recommend MongoDB Atlas to potential users."
"It is a solid product, very sustainable, and it takes minimal effort to solve a problem while being very easy to deploy."
"It is better than the legacy databases, and it is very good with the cloud."
"This solution is very helpful due to its ease of use."
"It's a good solution for NoSQL databases."
"Administering the solution is easy."
"It's a very elastic solution for the purposes of our systems and the developers appreciate it for software development."
 

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."
"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."
"There are certain features that we would like to see added and we are collaborating with the product teams on these areas."
"MongoDB Atlas is effective for unstructured and semi-structured data, but when it comes to OLTP transactions, its performance declines."
"The product does not have ORM."
"I would like the solution to offer more integration capabilities since it is an area where the solution lacks."
"I would like a better dashboard. It could be made a bit more user friendly."
"When we make transactions, they do not process in real-time and require a refresh."
"The UI is not currently designed in a manner to make it possible for a non-technical person or a layman to update the database easily."
"The UI can be difficult to understand."
"A few areas that we have noticed as being problematic with the MongoDB Atlas include user access to the platform. Currently, it is difficult to restrict and control what actions a user can perform within the solution, which poses a challenge from an internal auditing perspective."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Amazon Timestream's pricing seems manageable to me."
"We pay over $10 million a year to Amazon."
"We don't see high costs with Amazon Timestream, which may vary by company."
"For 1GB of data, the solution charges $ 0.01 in the US region."
"Pricing could always be better."
"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."
"In my previous company, the product allowed use to build a database in a highly regulated environment with the ability to get distributed storage. We used MongoDB as a distributed storage to set up this environment for a critical business application with millions of dollars."
"The pricing and licensing is great."
"The price of MongoDB Atlas is highly expensive to use and maintain. They are taking advantage of the users with such a high price."
"For our service, it was around 300 to 600 euros per month, which was acceptable for our customers."
"For me, MongoDB is expensive, but I think it is not so expensive for customers."
"The price of MongoDB Atlas is highly affordable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Construction Company
10%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise11
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 currently has almost all the features we require, but there are some points where I see certain improvements. One area is cost visibility and optimization. Since pricing is largely ba...
What is your primary use case for MongoDB Atlas?
In my day-to-day work, I use MongoDB Atlas primarily for storing and querying semi-structured or dynamic data where schema flexibility is important, as I work extensively on schema design, indexing...
 

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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