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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.
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

"It has visible benefits, actually, in terms of price of ownership if you compare it to, for example, Oracle."
"I like that MongoDB has a free version. You can also buy the enterprise edition, which is cheaper than Oracle."
"It is very easy to create a MongoDB cluster. You can deploy three nodes in one hour. You can do small configurations to enable routing. It is easy to implement."
"The tool is also user-friendly."
"One of the most valuable features is the ability to Text Search can be used anywhere and anytime."
"MongoDB is fast and efficient."
"MongoDB is scalable and stable. The initial setup is very easy, and deployment and maintenance can be done by one person."
"Sharding is an excellent feature of MongoDB."
"As a key/value store, Oracle BDB is simple to use, and it provides ACID transactions for companies that cannot afford eventual consistency."
"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."
"The tool's performance is good, and I don't have any problems with it."
"This product helped us to develop a performance-critical DB backend module in the healthcare domain."
"The product meets all the essential business requirements."
 

Cons

"Our program developer finds it to be a little unstable, development-wise."
"I'd like to see an ID generator. It's very technical but I don't think it has one, so we have to go to great lengths to work around that."
"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. There should be some kind of midway where a person who is coming from an Oracle background can write a query and get a response by using something like a select * statement or other such things. There should be some way for MongoDB to interpret these commands rather than making a person learn MongoDB commands and writing them. I struggled while writing these MongoDB commands. I had not seen such queries before. It was pretty difficult to get them. This is one of the areas where it would help from the improvement standpoint."
"They could provide more documentation and examples for adding pipeline stages."
"The solution could have more integration."
"They could improve the UI and the analytics part."
"We'd like technical support to respond faster to queries."
"The performance can be improved."
"The product's interface could be more intuitive and user-friendly."
"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."
"Environment corruption is a common problem found when a DB environment is used by more than one process on a machine at a time."
"Memory usage becomes a problem when the number of entries stored within the key/value store are quite high (hundreds of millions)."
"There were some mid-term small releases that caused database crashes, but this was later fixed."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"The solution is open source so is free."
"The solution is open source, so it is free."
"MongoDB's pricing is reasonable."
"MongoDB is a bit expensive compared to its competitors."
"We use the open-source version, which is available to use free of charge."
"The product is affordable."
"The pricing is normal. Price-wise, the product is not too much 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

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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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