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F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition 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:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.7
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition enhances performance and reduces costs by improving application uptime, security, and operational efficiency.
Sentiment score
7.1
MongoDB Atlas offers cost savings, enhances development efficiency, and improves application performance, crucial for large-scale distributed storage projects.
Overall, I can say the ROI includes a twenty-five to thirty percent cost reduction, with some areas achieving forty percent cost reduction in our expenses.
Network Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
There is a significant performance improvement in the website and website speed.
IT consultant at Beginning Solutions IT
With F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition, we have not faced any RMAs, which has made a positive operational impact.
Senior Network And Security Engineer at Mobily
We have seen a return on investment; while we do not have the exact numbers, as it is saving our time and making our development easier, we can easily say the cost is being reduced.
Senior Software Developer at NIT
I find it easy to use.
IT Manager at a government with 11-50 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.5
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition support is effective and knowledgeable, though off-hour delays and access issues occasionally occur.
Sentiment score
6.8
MongoDB Atlas support is responsive but costly, with mixed feedback due to delays and reliance on documentation and community.
I would rate the customer support on a scale of one to ten as a perfect ten based on all of the experience I have had so far.
Senior Network And Security Engineer at Mobily
I rate customer support a 10 out of 10, as they are knowledgeable and provide straightforward troubleshooting.
Network Engineer at Thryv
Customer support for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is excellent.
IT consultant at Beginning Solutions IT
I have used them sometimes, even recently, and found the feedback to be spot on our needs.
Partner at Red software systems
The features of MongoDB Atlas fall short, resulting in an average rating due to higher-expectation features still lacking in its offerings.
DB Architect / Consultant at Virtusa Global
Most of the issues I encountered, like query performance or indexing, were handled internally through monitoring, optimization, and best practices.
Senior Software Developer at NIT
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.7
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition offers scalable, flexible resource expansion, supporting high availability and adaptability for increased traffic and demand.
Sentiment score
7.6
MongoDB Atlas is highly scalable, adapting to changing demands, efficiently distributing data, and facilitating seamless expansion for applications.
It is the most scalable and reliable system.
Cybersecurity Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Within ten minutes of time, we can scale and boot as many virtual machines as needed in the environment.
Network Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Being a virtual edition, we were able to scale resources such as CPU, memory, and throughput based on our demand without major architectural changes.
Network Security Engineer at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's very much scalable, and I would rate scalability a nine.
General Manager at Kaleyra
It supports both vertical scaling and horizontal scaling through sharding, where data is distributed across multiple nodes.
Senior Software Developer at NIT
MongoDB Atlas offers sharding as a scalability feature, although it does not perform as well as Oracle.
DB Architect / Consultant at Virtusa Global
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is highly stable, offering strong performance and security, with minimal downtime apart from updates.
Sentiment score
8.0
Users commend MongoDB Atlas for stability and reliability, despite interface critiques and challenges with OLTP transactions and triggers.
The load balancing module still performed admirably.
Sr network engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
The performance increased significantly and the response times of the application improved.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The uptime improvements with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition are almost close to 100%, as it only goes down if a failover happens.
Sr. Consutant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Since it is a managed service, features like replication, automatic failover, and backups are handled by the platform.
Senior Software Developer at NIT
When it comes to OLTP transactions, its performance declines.
DB Architect / Consultant at Virtusa Global
The stability of the product is very high.
General Manager at Kaleyra
 

Room For Improvement

F5 BIG-IP VE requires interface upgrades, better microservices support, improved logging, clearer licensing, easier upgrades, and enhanced Azure integration.
Users seek MongoDB Atlas enhancements in data processes, integration, UI, performance, scalability, documentation, and cost efficiency.
The primary concern I noted regarding F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is its scalability during high-load situations.
Sr network engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
It is a somewhat expensive solution, and the price needs to be improved based on what our customers have told us.
IT consultant at Beginning Solutions IT
With FortiWeb, we have a dashboard where I can check the policy status with just one click, and everything is easily accessible.
Senior Network And Security Engineer at Mobily
Enhancing capabilities for data pipelines and visualization dashboards.
DB Architect / Consultant at Virtusa Global
MongoDB Atlas should support containerization.
General Manager at Kaleyra
The UI is good, although I have checked one aspect in MongoDB Atlas: when we make transactions, they do not process in real-time and require a refresh.
software developer
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise users appreciate F5 BIG-IP VE's ROI and scalability, but licensing costs and pricing transparency remain concerns.
Enterprise buyers find MongoDB Atlas competitively priced, valuing its pay-as-you-go model, flexibility, and minimal initial setup expense.
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition's pricing structure was significantly more advantageous and aligned with our budgetary considerations.
Sr network engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
My experience with pricing and setup costs for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition was mixed, as they do not have an option for 10 gig licensing, which was costly for us.
Analyst at Accenture
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition solves a very significant problem of high availability and performance.
IT consultant at Beginning Solutions IT
For our service, it was around 300 to 600 euros per month, which was acceptable for our customers.
Partner at Red software systems
The price of MongoDB Atlas is reasonable, which is why many organizations, including mine, are opting for it.
DB Architect / Consultant at Virtusa Global
 

Valuable Features

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition boosts user experience and efficiency with load balancing, security features, high availability, and cost reduction.
MongoDB Atlas excels in scalability, security, usability, and efficiency, effectively handling unstructured data and reducing operational costs.
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition helped our customers increase the high availability and performance of their applications, specifically their web applications.
IT consultant at Beginning Solutions IT
If ten thousand, fifty thousand, or even a million people want to access the application simultaneously, we have configured auto-scalability.
Network Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition has impacted my organization positively with cost savings by saving public IP addresses, and its performance and stability, which give almost 100% uptime for the application because we have high availability.
Sr. Consutant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
MongoDB Atlas is a fully managed service, meaning it handles deployment, scaling, backup, patching, and maintenance automatically, which allows developers to focus more on application logic instead of infrastructure.
Senior Software Developer at NIT
I find MongoDB Atlas highly scalable and easy to use, with very good support.
Partner at Red software systems
It is particularly useful for unstructured and semi-structured data because of its performance in these areas.
DB Architect / Consultant at Virtusa Global
 

Categories and Ranking

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) (6th)
MongoDB Atlas
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
Database as a Service (DBaaS) (3rd), Managed NoSQL Databases (3rd), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (3rd), AI Software Development (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition and MongoDB Atlas aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition is designed for Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) and holds a mindshare of 1.3%.
MongoDB Atlas, on the other hand, focuses on Database as a Service (DBaaS), holds 11.4% mindshare, down 14.1% since last year.
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition1.3%
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)13.0%
NetScaler12.1%
Other73.6%
Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
Database as a Service (DBaaS) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MongoDB Atlas11.4%
Amazon RDS11.9%
Microsoft Azure SQL Database9.9%
Other66.8%
Database as a Service (DBaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2800392 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Cloud deployment has simplified traffic distribution and now supports flexible multi-zone DR
Regarding F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition's improvement areas, the current dashboard is very useful, but I believe the registration process should be simplified in the virtual edition. Especially in the Azure environment, many features are not currently aligned and working with Azure. We need to make efforts to ensure it is well integrated with Azure. Currently, if we want to integrate route tables with the virtual F5 edition, we need to deploy scripting inside the virtual F5 instances, and then that script performs the virtual IP route table changes in the Azure environment. This feature should be auto-configured, and efforts are needed to ensure the virtual edition is very much aligned with the Azure environment. I am expecting this improvement in the next edition. The failover capability is also not as good as it should be. We have tested the failover functionality, and sometimes we have observed that failover fails. F5 does not successfully fail over to other instances perfectly, so that also needs to be improved. Security should also be enhanced, as in the past I have seen some security loopholes. Tightening of security should be included in the new software. These improvements should be present in near future editions.
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.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Construction Company
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise19
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business25
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise22
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?
Improvements for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition could include a more straightforward process for major updates where we could pre-schedule upgrades to avoid downtime.
What advice do you have for others considering F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?
F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition did not impact anything positively, as during core network activities, backend servers stopped responding due to being legacy servers, which may create issues. F5 BIG-IP V...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition?
Regarding pricing, I believe it is high, but the setup cost is low and licensing is fine, though I do not have the complete analysis from our sales team. I understand that F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition...
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

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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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