MongoDB Atlas

MongoDB Atlas

FeatureMongoDB Atlas

Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes

Edge Functions

Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance.

Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API

Developer Experience

Database type

OLTP

Data model

Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based

Document based, NoSQL

CLI

Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line.

atlas

Languages, APIs

The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication

All languages supporting MongoDB driver

Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

Mongo-Query-Language (MQL)

ACID compliant

ACID is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity despite errors, power failures, and other mishaps
ACID compliant, document level atomicity.

Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance
Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB

Backups

Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters

Security & Compliance Offerings

SOC2

Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data.

Multi-factor authentication

Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication

Encryption

Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level

Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default

SSO

Monitoring and analytics

Log retention

Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes

Atlas retains the last 30 days of log messages and system event audit messages for each tier in a cluster"

Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance

Web based monitoring tools

Scalability

Replication and Partitioning

By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load