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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 (9th), 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 (10th), 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 11.3%, down 16.2% compared to last year.
Oracle Berkeley DB, on the other hand, focuses on Embedded Database, holds 5.7% mindshare, up 4.9% since last year.
NoSQL Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced11.3%
Cassandra8.8%
Redis7.8%
Other72.1%
NoSQL Databases
Embedded Database Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Oracle Berkeley DB5.7%
SAP HANA13.3%
SQLite13.0%
Other68.0%
Embedded Database
 

Featured Reviews

Romel Jr Zerna - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Pioneer Dev AI
Document data has streamlined prototyping and now supports secure cloud deployments
I use the cloud version of the product. MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is from MongoDB, though I also use DigitalOcean as a third-party provider. Maybe it's all more about preferences. I think MongoDB Enterprise Advanced has weak support on the ORM side, particularly if you're using Prisma. I think mostly the focus now on the tools we have is PostgreSQL. MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is not really used that much on our side for production. It's not really a weak point. It's more of a double-edged sword. If you like document-based management databases and you don't want any migrations, then you go to MongoDB Enterprise Advanced. If you want more secure databases, then you use SQL. On the account management and the way you secure the connection strings, I have utilized advanced security features with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced. I think it's very expensive on the Atlas enterprise side. But if you go to other providers of MongoDB Enterprise Advanced, such as DigitalOcean, it may be harder to set up, but they can save you money. My review rating for MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is 8 out of 10.
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 is scalable and stable. The initial setup is very easy, and deployment and maintenance can be done by one person."
"Easier to maintain the data with its document-based storage."
"MongoDB has definitely helped us improve our network monitoring and reporting dashboard, so I would say it has impacted our operations positively overall."
"The most valuable features of MongoDB are we have a lot of documentation and SQL-based applications that run on it."
"MongoDB stores the JSON data, and it's easy for me to understand because I'm a JavaScript Developer."
"We can define security rules at the database level or the cluster level to grant or deny access to particular users."
"I think that MongoDB isn't too structured, and that's good for our technical team because they are able to search through the database better than if they are using SQL Server."
"MongoDB is highly stable, and I would rate its stability at nine out of ten."
"The product meets all the essential business requirements."
"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."
"This product helped us to develop a performance-critical DB backend module in the healthcare domain."
"As a key/value store, Oracle BDB is simple to use, and it provides ACID transactions for companies that cannot afford eventual consistency."
"The tool's performance is good, and I don't have any problems with it."
 

Cons

"It would be good to have scalability for clusters. For example, if we have three clusters, we should be able to increase to five clusters if required. I am not sure if such a feature is currently there. I hope there is good documentation for this."
"The stability could be improved."
"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."
"It is important to note that MongoDB has limitations since it can only be used for specific use cases. For example, for master data, I would want to pick keys using an RDBMS, but for attachments, I would choose MongoDB."
"MongoDB is the second option for non-critical processes at the moment. We do not yet trust it with critical items."
"I think that MongoDB's search engine should be improved."
"The performance of the solution could be improved."
"They could provide more documentation and examples for adding pipeline stages."
"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."
"There were some mid-term small releases that caused database crashes, but this was later fixed."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's open-source."
"MongoDB is an open-source product."
"We use the open-source version, which is available to use free of charge."
"There is an annual subscription for the use of this solution."
"MongoDB is an open-source solution."
"MongoDB has a free version. You can also buy the enterprise edition, which is cheaper than Oracle."
"I believe that the licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."
"It is rather expensive."
"There is a need to pay for the licenses and features of the tool."
"I rate the product's pricing a five out of ten."
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Top Industries

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

Company Size

By reviewers
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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