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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
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (7th), NoSQL Databases (2nd)
 

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 Enterprise Advanced is 11.2%, up from 7.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed NoSQL Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced11.2%
Amazon Timestream4.8%
Other84.0%
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.
AB
Co-Founder at Vsigma IT Labs Pvt Ltd
Have managed customer transaction data efficiently and supported high-demand workloads with reliable performance
The integration between data warehouse could be improved. Nowadays, a lot of data is getting generated, so certain ETL flexible scripts with backend database integrations would be an improvement I could see. I will not be able to clearly say there is currently a deficiency there. All our DBs are integrated with a backend data warehouse, not necessarily AWS. When third-party data warehouses are integrated, we are seeing some ETL job performance issues. It is a one-off scenario so we have not thoroughly done any troubleshooting on that. It could be platform or third-party related issue. From the AWS standpoint, if robust integration and data warehouse integration specific tools are added in the advanced suite, that would definitely be helpful.

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."
"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."
"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."
"We use MongoDB for big data analysis, and we are also developing monitoring tools, planning to use MongoDB to silo out the data structure as our data grows."
"We use it for website designing, and for mobile app designing just like Adobe XD."
"It is very fast - faster than an SQL or MySQL Server."
"The feature I find most valuable is that it is easy to use and even a non-technical person will be able to understand it."
"Sharding is an excellent feature of MongoDB."
"We decided to work with MongoDB as its interface is easier to understand and more universal."
"The aggregation framework is really good, allowing a developer to build very complex queries."
"It facilitates the generation of heatmaps for graphical data analysis."
 

Cons

"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."
"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."
"Arranging the database schema is a bit challenging."
"When third-party data warehouses are integrated, we are seeing some ETL job performance issues."
"Actually, with MongoDB, it's difficult to calculate the return on investment; it's too expensive for our use."
"Some of the solution's transaction capabilities can be improved."
"I don't see a lot of areas that need improvement."
"Overall the solution is expensive."
"MongoDB should not be used for reporting, analytics, or number-crunching tasks."
"More stable indexes would be helpful in a future release. That's been an issue for some time."
"The improvements could be made to intelligence to detect disk storage and prevent MongoDB from crashing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We pay over $10 million a year to Amazon."
"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."
"I don't know, but I have heard from people who procure it that it is much cheaper than Oracle."
"I believe that MongoDB is free."
"There are different licenses available to be purchased, such as individual, premium, or enterprise."
"MongoDB is an open-source product."
"At the moment, all customers are using the community version."
"MongoDB is not expensive."
"MongoDB is an open-source solution."
"The solution is open source so is free."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Educational Organization
8%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

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
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