We performed a comparison between MongoDB Atlas and SQL Azure 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."I am impressed with the tool's integrations."
"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 most beneficial MongoDB features for our workload are the ability to scale up and down using automatic sharding and clustering."
"The most valuable feature is the schemaless architecture."
"You can start quickly on projects which allow you to store many things."
"The most valuable feature is that it's all web-based. So one can browse collections just from the web. MongoDB Atlas is very accessible, quick to understand, and quick to learn. People who have never used CLI can hop into the web interface and browse the database."
"It's flexible. We don't need to have a solid upstream availability failover, and everything is seamless in Atlas."
"The stability and performance are great. The high availability feature is great. Moreover, I am happy with the automated backup and restore functionality."
"SQL Azure is reliable and scales well."
"Its easy usage is the most valuable."
"The best thing about the solution is that it is tightly integrated with Azure Functions and Azure App Service, making it easy to deploy to the cloud."
"We have come from hosting on-premise for customers, or they've done it themselves with SQL. We've now taken a cloud offering for the equivalent services of standard database management and the inbuilt backup and restore offerings. The scalability is probably the biggest feature that we are benefiting from by being in the cloud."
"What is really helpful about the Azure SQL is that when we have a problem with our sound queries, we can trade information about what indexes we should create on tables. It's really helpful for me and also for developers."
"SQL Azure is good with transactional systems."
"The most valuable feature of SQL Azure is centralized authentication because I'm using the domain, user name, and password, for Microsoft 365 account with multifactor authentication and the security has been working well."
"The most valuable feature is PolyBase."
"MongoDB Atlas should add more APIs in their Terraform module because sometimes I find it difficult to find the resources in their Terraform model."
"The replica side, like the venue, can be improved."
"I am still new with it, but since I mentioned that I'm using this product for only the last six months and my experience with this product is good thus far, on a scale of one to ten, I would give MongoDB Atlas a six."
"We had some edge cases where scalability was an issue where a node went offline, and we had to deal with that."
"The installation was straightforward except for the network hardware because it was a little complicated to make the connection with our VPC on AWS."
"It would be better if there were more integration capabilities with other products."
"The price of the solution should be reduced."
"The initial configuration fine-tuning for performance can be time-consuming."
"The management is entirely controlled by Microsoft, so there are some restrictions."
"The price is a little higher."
"The configuration is the area that is most cumbersome."
"This solution would be improved with the inclusion of better self-service tools."
"We have a very small database running on SQL Azure. We have not been able to load bigger systems on it. It is still not something that is feasible. All our heavy-duty systems are on SAP, and it should have more compatibility with other vendors such as SAP. Its price can definitely be lower. It is pretty pricey."
"The product could be more competitive in terms of features, security, and scalability."
"The pricing is very high."
"The solution lacks feedback tools."
MongoDB Atlas is ranked 3rd in Database as a Service with 41 reviews while SQL Azure is ranked 2nd in Database as a Service with 90 reviews. MongoDB Atlas is rated 8.4, while SQL Azure is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of MongoDB Atlas writes "Allows our business to analyze social media data with machine learning and store the data in MongoDB". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SQL Azure writes "The SQL connector effectively syncs data to databases". MongoDB Atlas is most compared with Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, Oracle Database as a Service, Google Cloud Spanner and Oracle Exadata Cloud at Customer, whereas SQL Azure is most compared with Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, Oracle Database as a Service, IBM Db2 on Cloud and Google Cloud Spanner. See our MongoDB Atlas vs. SQL Azure report.
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