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Amazon Timestream vs MongoDB Enterprise Advanced comparison

 

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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:
 

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 Enterprise Advanced
Ranking in Managed NoSQL Databases
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (5th), NoSQL Databases (1st)
 

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 Enterprise Advanced is 10.8%, up from 6.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed NoSQL Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced10.8%
Amazon Timestream5.0%
Other84.2%
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.
FG
Architecte Cloud at Visiativ SA
Offers reliable engine for legacy needs but requires enhanced cost management and AI features
While MongoDB is a good product, it is also an expensive product for support, and its scalability is acceptable, but the big problem with MongoDB is the cost. For security in MongoDB, we work with encrypted databases by default, but we have not contracted the security options in our contract because it is too expensive, so we only implement encrypted databases without the security pack, which is very expensive for us; in security, we are at the first steps, just using encrypted databases. I think additional features needed in MongoDB include perhaps vector databases, as I think they are not supported right now.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Using Amazon Timestream has been seamless due to its integration within the AWS ecosystem and ease of use for the engineering team."
"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."
"If you drop a message, the solution's technical support will definitely reply."
"The best things about Amazon Timestream are it's maintenance-free, customizable, and has no lag issues. It's always real-time."
"You can quickly aggregate data from the last ten years with Amazon Timestream."
"MongoDB is flexible and it allows other applications to be added."
"We can define security rules at the database level or the cluster level to grant or deny access to particular users."
"In our case, it is most important to have redundancy."
"This is a product that I can recommend to others."
"The integration capabilities of MongoDB are fine for the solutions that we use in our company."
"It facilitates the generation of heatmaps for graphical data analysis."
"It has visible benefits, actually, in terms of price of ownership if you compare it to, for example, Oracle."
"I find the integration with other tools very easy."
 

Cons

"Arranging the database schema is a bit challenging."
"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."
"There are disadvantages when it comes to time series databases since you can't delete anything from Amazon Timestream data."
"The tool could be improved by increasing the batch size from one hundred records to five hundred or a thousand to speed up indexing."
"Overall the solution is expensive."
"When I want to connect to a node, I need to supply the certificate that MongoDB trusts, even though I use an admin password."
"I rate the support from MongoDB a four out of five."
"Actually, with MongoDB, it's difficult to calculate the return on investment; it's too expensive for our use."
"The price can always be better. I mean, we are a big corporation so it is quite expensive for us."
"The solution could have more integration."
"More stable indexes would be helpful in a future release. That's been an issue for some time."
"The dashboard is an area of concern in the solution where improvements are required."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"For 1GB of data, the solution charges $ 0.01 in the US region."
"Amazon Timestream's pricing seems manageable to me."
"We don't see high costs with Amazon Timestream, which may vary by company."
"We pay over $10 million a year to Amazon."
"If you want support with the solution you will need to purchase a license and not use the open-source version. The license is a little expensive."
"MongoDB is a bit expensive compared to its competitors."
"There is an enterprise license and it could be cheaper. We are using the free open source version."
"We are using the Community Edition of MongoDB."
"I'm using the free version of MongoDB."
"I believe that the licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."
"I only used the open-source version."
"It's open-source."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
6%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business36
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise39
 

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?
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.
 

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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
Facebook, MetLife, City of Chicago, Expedia, eBay, Google
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