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JFrog Artifactory vs MongoDB Atlas comparison

 

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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

JFrog Artifactory
Ranking in AI Software Development
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Repository Managers (2nd)
MongoDB Atlas
Ranking in AI Software Development
14th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
Database as a Service (DBaaS) (4th), Managed NoSQL Databases (3rd), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the AI Software Development category, the mindshare of JFrog Artifactory is 0.4%. The mindshare of MongoDB Atlas is 0.8%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Software Development Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
JFrog Artifactory0.4%
MongoDB Atlas0.8%
Other98.8%
AI Software Development
 

Featured Reviews

VB
Development Senior at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
Supports a wide variety of packages with robust security features but needs tighter cloud integration
The best features of JFrog Artifactory include the core functionality of package management and software management, along with scanning capabilities to prevent vulnerabilities from being introduced. The metadata management feature was particularly useful for managing packages within JFrog Artifactory. We utilized Xray integration with JFrog Artifactory, which was instrumental in managing vulnerabilities overall. JFrog Artifactory has robust functionality in terms of access control, which helped us ensure minimal access to various artifacts. I would rate it eight out of ten because it is a great product that is widely used in the industry. It has excellent features from an artifact management perspective and maintains good integrations.
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

"Universal package support and custom properties help my team day-to-day by making us more efficient, as we have one tool with which all engineering teams can interact regardless of their team."
"HPE was using it for a lot of things, and they certainly had a massive implementation."
"Artifactory has helped us modernize, and that's something that we can't do without."
"JFrog Artifactory has positively impacted my organization by enhancing software supply chain security, and that is the biggest takeaway."
"Having a standard solution such as JFrog Artifactory has affected productivity and collaboration positively."
"JFrog Artifactory proved very helpful in supporting a variety of package types for different projects."
"JFrog Artifactory has definitely impacted our organization in a positive manner, as approximately 20,000 people or 20,000 pipelines use it on a day-to-day basis and most of the time it saves time because it is very fast, with tools, services, and features that are really brilliant and no other tool can match."
"JFrog Artifactory has helped us scale faster and is a highly available, robust artifact repository that boosts our confidence in production."
"It is a scalable solution because we use quite a lot of data, and it handles it well."
"It enables us to get work done quickly and get to our data."
"The scalability is very high, the performance is very high, and the cost is lower as compared to the traditional database for cloud."
"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."
"It is a great product."
"Its most valuable features are high availability and zero maintenance."
"MongoDB Atlas is very easy to use and user-friendly, and you get what you're paying for."
"It's a very elastic solution for the purposes of our systems and the developers appreciate it for software development."
 

Cons

"Maybe around user experience, I think one improvement could be the UX, which shows its age, as it has not changed for a bit, but other than that, it is fine."
"The complexity of managing the tool and the high cost prevent it from being a ten, especially considering there are cloud-native alternatives that are cheaper and easier to use."
"Although JQL is a great tool, I have noticed that JQL queries can be hard to learn."
"JFrog Artifactory could be improved for simpler workflows without dedicated infra teams or dedicated DevOps, as it could be difficult to configure."
"I would like to see written technical support instead of having to contact them directly."
"The documentation is a bit sparse. That's our only complaint."
"Sometimes the documentation was sort of messy because there are many possibilities for where and how to install Artifactory."
"I choose a nine out of ten because, as mentioned in my previous answer, it sometimes faces performance issues due to slow repository response and long download times for artifacts, which affects overall performance."
"The cost needs improvement. The product is good, but the cost that we paid for it is expensive, so it wasn't that valuable."
"Searching and browsing through the collection must be made easier."
"MongoDB Atlas should add more APIs in their Terraform module because sometimes I find it difficult to find the resources in their Terraform model."
"From the scalability point of view, when we shard the database it creates a replica set of each shard and that will increase the cost."
"The administration is not very interactive. It's not very friendly for developers."
"The cost needs improvement."
"I would like the solution to offer more integration capabilities since it is an area where the solution lacks."
"Going forward, we would like to have pure AWS Cloud (native) storage instead regular storage on the AWS integration side."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is a bit expensive. It could be a little bit lower or have an a la carte option because, in our case, we had to go to the next version of Enterprise X because we needed one feature, which was more than three projects. We don't need all the other capabilities, but we're paying for all those. It's almost twice the cost of the previous version. So, it would be nice to have something along those lines."
"I am not aware of its cost, but it is worth investing in this. My guess is that its price is not much because we generally prefer open-source solutions, and if we are investing, we don't go for expensive ones. Our selection is based on the market demand and needs, and we invest only if something is worth the cost."
"The pricing and licensing is great."
"The pricing is not that expensive, but it can be, especially when we have deployed it across multiple zones."
"The solution is expensive overall. It does not require a license but if you want the support then you will need to purchase the license. They use a pay-as-you-go model and you are able to receive some discounts by making longer usage commitments."
"The price of MongoDB Atlas is highly affordable."
"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."
"It is too expensive. They need to work on this."
"Pricing could always be better."
"I am using the free version of the solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Construction Company
10%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise12
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise23
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JFrog Artifactory?
I do not have much experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing, as it was set up by a different team.
What needs improvement with JFrog Artifactory?
I cannot say much about how JFrog Artifactory can be improved. I appreciate the opportunity to add more about the needed improvements, even small ones. Maybe around user experience, I think one imp...
What is your primary use case for JFrog Artifactory?
My main use case for JFrog Artifactory is hosting artifacts for products, ranging from Docker images to Helm charts, and regular binaries. I can give you a specific example of how I use JFrog Artif...
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)
 

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Sample Customers

Oracle, Cisco, Cars.com, Riot Games, Google, CA Technologies
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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