Azure Blob Storage vs. MongoDB Atlas

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Blob Storage
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's Blob Storage system on Azure is designed to make unstructured data available to customers anywhere through REST-based object storage.
$0.01
per GB/per month
MongoDB Atlas
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
MongoDB Atlas is the company's automated managed cloud service, supplying automated deployment, provisioning and patching, and other features supporting database monitoring and optimization.
$57
per month
Pricing
Azure Blob StorageMongoDB Atlas
Editions & Modules
Block Blobs
$0.0081
per GB/per month
Azure Data Lake Storage
$0.0081
per GB/per month
Files
$0.058
per GB/per month
Managed Discs
$1.54
per month
Dedicated Clusters
$57
per month
Dedicated Multi-Reigon Clusters
$95
per month
Shared Clusters
Free
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Blob StorageMongoDB Atlas
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Features
Azure Blob StorageMongoDB Atlas
Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Azure Blob Storage
-
Ratings
MongoDB Atlas
9.3
5 Ratings
6% above category average
Automatic software patching00 Ratings9.55 Ratings
Database scalability00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Automated backups00 Ratings9.55 Ratings
Database security provisions00 Ratings9.55 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics00 Ratings9.55 Ratings
Automatic host deployment00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
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Azure Blob StorageMongoDB Atlas
Small Businesses
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Score 9.7 out of 10
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SingleStore
Score 9.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Pure Storage FlashBlade
Pure Storage FlashBlade
Score 9.0 out of 10
SingleStore
SingleStore
Score 9.8 out of 10
Enterprises
Google Cloud Storage
Google Cloud Storage
Score 8.8 out of 10
SingleStore
SingleStore
Score 9.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure Blob StorageMongoDB Atlas
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(8 ratings)
10.0
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(3 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Blob StorageMongoDB Atlas
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
Azure Blob Storage is well suited for cases where you are working with different data formats and looking for cost-effective storage solutions based on access frequency. Another area of strength is the encryption of data at rest, and encryption can be managed on your own. However, it may not be appropriate for transferring large data very fast.
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MongoDB
I would recommend MongoDB Atlas to every company who have a significant need in the NoSQL database and do not want to manage their infrastructure. Using MongoDB Atlas can significantly reduce your management time and cost, which saves valuable resources for other tasks. It also suits a smaller company as MongoDB Atlas scales up and down very quickly.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Ease of use both through Azure Portal as well as API.
  • Cost-effective solution for storing a large amount of data compared to other storage solutions.
  • Scalability, Security, and Performance are the other key aspects of Azure Blob Storage that are easily manageable through Admin Console.
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MongoDB
  • DB Provisioning.
  • DB Management.
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Unstructured data makes it harder to conceptualize what we have but with partners like Panzura that has been a non-issue for us.
  • Not always easy to understand the different models or tiers you can pick from when purchasing.
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MongoDB
  • As an independent entity, MongoDB Atlas is not included in existing subscriptions from AWS or Azure, requiring an additional support plan and reliance on a third party.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
Documentation sometimes appears to be out of date or not fully documented properly with new releases. It is like documentation comes out for a specific version and is quickly out of date. Another issue is documentation is scarce on new releases and only seems to get properly updated (and sometimes is still wrong) once enough people hit the forums to complain.
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MongoDB
We love MongoDB support and have great relationship with them. When we decided to go with MongoDB Atlas, they sent a team of 5 to our company to discuss the process of setting up a Mongo cluster and walked us through. when we have questions, we create a ticket and they will respond very quickly
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Azure Blob Storage is the best choice to store files when the app runs in Azure. It also has some advantages over S3, like Shared Access Signatures, that make it easy to control access to files directly via a URL. Azure Blob Storage is very fast and we have not had any major issues with it after using it for several years.
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MongoDB
MongoDB Atlas has been in the market for very long time and there are bunch of documentation, training and support for it. It also is specifically designed for the use case similar to our project and big companies in the market uses them for very high load which made us confident about our choice.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • Azure has increased the flexibility of where we place data within our organization.
  • It has proven to be very reliable and always accessible.
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MongoDB
  • Improved our maintainability
  • Reduced daily work compared to self-hosted solutions
  • Reasonable pricing compared to value
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