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Why did you choose MongoDB Atlas?

Scalability in the cloud	71%
Flexible document data model	64%
Deployment flexibility (free tier, pre-provisioned clusters, serverless)	56%
Helpful developer tools (i.e. Compass, MongoDB Shell, VS Code Extension)	38%
Lower costs	29%
The ability to run multiple workloads in a single platform (i.e. time series data, search, mobile)	24%

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Before using MongoDB Atlas, what challenges were you facing?

Spending too much time managing and scaling infrastructure	59%
Slow time to bring new applications or features to market	39%
Data modeling and schema management	36%
Overspending on infrastructure (overspending or running multiple specialized databases)	28%
Managing too many tools or working with data in silos (infrastructure complexity)	23%
Too much time spent writing custom code	22%

MongoDB Case Study

Apnatime Tech Pvt Ltd

Introduction

This case study of Apnatime Tech Pvt Ltd is based on a February 2022 survey of MongoDB customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“We are using Event Driven architecture and MongoDB is our primary data store for our catalog and content management systems with low latency and high throughput requirements.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select MongoDB:

The challenges Apnatime Tech Pvt Ltd were facing that MongoDB helped solve:
- “Dynamic Schema Definition, High read performance, Availability, Ease of scale.”
Apnatime Tech Pvt Ltd’s main objective when selecting MongoDB was:
- To migrate an existing application from an alternative database to MongoDB
The database(s) in use before MongoDB:
- ElasticSearch
- PostgreSQL

Use Case

How Apnatime Tech Pvt Ltd utilizes MongoDB:

“We are using Event-Driven architecture and MongoDB is our primary data store for our catalog and content management systems with low latency and high throughput requirements. Apna is [the] biggest professional network in India for blue and grey collar workers and we store MongoDB to store profession network graph.”

The reason they chose MongoDB was:
- Flexible document data model
- Ease of use
- Deployment flexibility (on-premises, self-managed cloud, fully-managed cloud)
MongoDB product in use:
- Atlas Database
Cloud provider they are currently using is:
- GCP
MongoDB use cases include:
- Catalog
- Content Management
- Data as a Service (DaaS)
- Mobile & Mobile Apps
- Personalization

Results

Apnatime Tech Pvt Ltd achieved the following results with MongoDB:

Horizontal scaling, Easier management, Observability, and Performance
Something unique about how Apnatime Tech Pvt Ltd is able to use MongoDB:
- “Running intelligent aggregate pipeline within user flow with sub-millisecond latencies.”

MongoDB Customer Testimonial

Thanks to Atlas serverless instances I no longer need to worry about scaling databases.

— Engineer, Small Business Consumer Products Company

MongoDB Case Study

ChangeJar Technologies Private Limited

Introduction

This case study of ChangeJar Technologies private limited is based on a March 2022 survey of MongoDB customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“We are using MongoDB as our primary database for managing our core app functionalities that include payments, rewards, ledger, content management, authorization, and gamification.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select MongoDB:

The company was looking for “scalability and ease of development.”
Their main objective when selecting MongoDB was to: Launch their new application on MongoDB
The databases in use before MongoDB were:
- DynamoDB
- AWS Aurora
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Google Firebase/Firestore

Use Case

Learn more about the key features and functionalities of MongoDB that financial services company ChangeJar Technologies Private Limited uses:

A brief overview: “We are using MongoDB as our primary database for managing our core app functionalities that include payments, rewards, ledger, content management, authorization, and gamification.”

Additional use cases include:
- 1. Ingestion platform for all the user events collected across the company’s mobile apps, which are then processed for further analytical use cases.
- 2. Realm and Triggers that in turn react to such ingested events.
- 3. Archiving and retrieving data from unified endpoints on demand from both primary and archived clusters in real time.

The reasons they chose MongoDB include:
- Flexible document data model
- Ease of use
- Deployment flexibility (on-premises, self-managed cloud, fully-managed cloud)
- Fully-managed cloud database
- Advanced security configurations
The products they are using are:
- Atlas Charts
- Atlas Database
- Atlas Data Lake
- MongoDB Realm
The cloud provider they are currently using is:
- AWS
MongoDB use cases include:
- Analytics & Operational Intelligence including Realtime
- Business Agility
- Data as a Service (DaaS)
- Mobile & Mobile Apps
- Payments
- Cloud migration

Results

The surveyed company has seen the following positive results with MongoDB:

“High availability clusters, which are auto managed by Atlas Cloud,"
“Ease of setting up archives and querying using unified endpoint across clusters and archived data stores,” and
“Aggregation pipelines have been very helpful in filtering out data that needed complex queries.”

MongoDB Customer Testimonial

It makes quick analysis and consistency checks much easier – connecting data visualization tools and querying datasets with the Atlas Data API is really simple.

— Director of Engineering, Small Business Financial Services Company

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