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MongoDB Enterprise Advanced vs Oracle Berkeley DB comparison

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Categories and Ranking

MongoDB Enterprise Advanced
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (8th), NoSQL Databases (2nd), Managed NoSQL Databases (4th)
Oracle Berkeley DB
Average Rating
7.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Embedded Database (9th), Non-Relational Databases (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Databases solutions, they serve different purposes. MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is designed for NoSQL Databases and holds a mindshare of 11.5%, down 16.9% compared to last year.
Oracle Berkeley DB, on the other hand, focuses on Embedded Database, holds 5.8% mindshare, up 4.3% since last year.
NoSQL Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced11.5%
Cassandra8.7%
Redis8.1%
Other71.7%
NoSQL Databases
Embedded Database Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle Berkeley DB5.8%
SAP HANA13.4%
SQLite13.3%
Other67.5%
Embedded Database
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Emad Mokhatab - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution & Software System Architect at Shaparak
Easy to integrate and manage the setup phase
One of the things that I want to see in Oracle Berkeley DB is a driver for reactive programming. I think the tool's official driver for reactive programming, especially for Java, is the thing that Oracle needs to be more agile in, specifically in those areas of programming that other products are currently going into. Other tools have become more innovative in many areas. I know that Oracle has many responsibilities in maintaining the situation with the current projects and so on. I think it would be very cool if Oracle could make improvements to its projects, as it can help me with my current projects. One reason why I don't choose Oracle Berkeley DB is because we want to go for reactive programming, along with Project Reactor from Spring, but we don't have the official driver for it.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"MongoDB stores the JSON data, and it's easy for me to understand because I'm a JavaScript Developer."
"The stability of the solution is very good, there are no bugs or glitches, it doesn't crash or freeze, and it's pretty good overall."
"MongoDB is a solution that I can recommend because we have realized good benefits from it."
"The most valuable feature is that you can store unstructured data, which is helpful when you don't know what the best structure should be and you cannot use a relational database because of that."
"It has visible benefits, actually, in terms of price of ownership if you compare it to, for example, Oracle."
"The installation of MongoDB is straightforward."
"It's easy to add and remove things in MongoDB. You can alter the tables. MongoDB is faster at reading, slower at writings."
"MongoDB has a simple data-loading interface."
"This product helped us to develop a performance-critical DB backend module in the healthcare domain."
"The tool's performance is good, and I don't have any problems with it."
"We always had predictability, and by using a custom-built data service layer with plugins, it provided us a lot of scalability, fast turnaround for our fast-moving business requirement and huge data."
"As a key/value store, Oracle BDB is simple to use, and it provides ACID transactions for companies that cannot afford eventual consistency."
"The product meets all the essential business requirements."
 

Cons

"It should have GUI for managing clusters. MongoDB needs a more powerful GUI to manage clusters and make switchovers. Currently, there is no good, free tool to check the replication to find out if there is a gap."
"They could provide more documentation and examples for adding pipeline stages."
"Data encryption is possible using third-party tools but they should have their own encryption capability built-in to this solution."
"The on-premises version of the solution is still pretty expensive, especially compared to the cloud version."
"When I want to connect to a node, I need to supply the certificate that MongoDB trusts, even though I use an admin password."
"More stable indexes would be helpful in a future release. That's been an issue for some time. I don't know if it's been fixed now but we transitioned to it because we needed a search index to be able to search for things and if that goes or starts disappearing, we have to move away from that solution. I don't know if they fixed it, last time I had this issue was three years ago so they might have solved it."
"A normal Oracle or database tester will take some time to gear up to MongoDB because the way of writing queries is different in MongoDB."
"We find it difficult to incorporate MongoDB in some projects."
"There were some mid-term small releases that caused database crashes, but this was later fixed."
"I think the tool's official driver for reactive programming, especially for Java, is the thing that Oracle needs to be more agile in, specifically in those areas of programming that other products are currently going into."
"Memory usage becomes a problem when the number of entries stored within the key/value store are quite high (hundreds of millions)."
"Environment corruption is a common problem found when a DB environment is used by more than one process on a machine at a time."
"The product's interface could be more intuitive and user-friendly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"MongoDB's pricing is reasonable."
"MongoDB's pricing is not reasonable, but it is not as expensive as the others."
"I currently use the solution's community edition which is free."
"MongoDB is an open-source solution."
"MongoDB is a free solution. We wanted to have high availability and the subscription cost was quite expensive because the basic one is free and then when you want to have some other replications or other features you will need to pay money. Overall the solution is expensive."
"You only have to pay for the paid version, not the open-source version."
"The pricing is favorable if you opt to install MongoDB on an Amazon EC2 instance as you won't have to pay for the extra Atlas services and can instead manage the scaling yourself. This allows for a cost-effective solution and using MongoDB on a small scale, I have been able to utilize it for free."
"I chose MongoDB because it is cost-effective compared to Oracle, which can be expensive. In addition, MongoDB has good performance and has not caused any issues while working with it. It has been a good choice for me."
"I rate the product's pricing a five out of ten."
"There is a need to pay for the licenses and features of the tool."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Educational Organization
11%
Outsourcing Company
10%
University
10%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business36
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise39
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Questions from the Community

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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