We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Spanner and MongoDB Atlas based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Database as a Service solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can scale the solution if we need to."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is its scalability. Scalability comes with two options, among which Google Cloud Spanner can scale horizontally, compared to other relational databases that scale vertically."
"Google Cloud Spanner is stable."
"The application deployment in the cloud is the best feature of the infrastructure."
"The speed of it is the most valuable feature."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The product is user-friendly."
"Our databases used to be in-house. Now, they are in the cloud with MongoDB and everything is much easier."
"The cloud-based nature of this solution makes it flexible and scalable."
"It enables us to get work done quickly and get to our data."
"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."
"I want to improve the deployment of cameras and surveillance infrastructure."
"The cost can be a bit high."
"Google came up with something called Cloud Spanner Emulator, which fails to work like the real product if I want to develop some code and run a database locally on my machine."
"The tool needs to improve horizontal scaling."
"The tool's implementation should be made easier."
"It would be better if there were more integration capabilities with other products."
"The product's file storage documentation needs improvement."
"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."
"The product's data aggregation feature needs to work faster."
"We had some bad trainers when we first came onboard and would rate them fairly low. They did not seem staffed properly to fulfill the training services that they offered."
"The replica side, like the venue, can be improved."
"The product does not have ORM."
Google Cloud Spanner is ranked 8th in Database as a Service with 4 reviews while MongoDB Atlas is ranked 3rd in Database as a Service with 41 reviews. Google Cloud Spanner is rated 9.0, while MongoDB Atlas is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Google Cloud Spanner writes "A stable and scalable relational database that ensures a return on investment for its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MongoDB Atlas writes "Allows our business to analyze social media data with machine learning and store the data in MongoDB". Google Cloud Spanner is most compared with Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, Oracle Database as a Service, Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer and SQL Azure, whereas MongoDB Atlas is most compared with Amazon RDS, SQL Azure, Google Cloud SQL, Oracle Database as a Service and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer. See our Google Cloud Spanner vs. MongoDB Atlas report.
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