MongoDB Atlas is a Fully Featured Document Database

Don’t build software with incomplete tools. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB lags MongoDB Atlas in key areas that will slow development.

MongoDB AtlasCosmos DB

Fully Compatible with MongoDB

Claims support of v7.0 API. No MongoDB Atlas server side code. Limited compatibility with MongoDB.

Deployable on Any Cloud or on premise

No, runs on Azure only.

Data Model Flexibility and Transactional Integrity

Cosmos DB does not offer the full data type, schema governance, and transactional support available in MongoDB Atlas.

Part of a developer data platform

No. Cosmos DB forces developers to work with 5 different APIs to deliver full application functionality.

MongoDB Atlas

Fully Compatible with MongoDB

Yes, up to the latest version, MongoDB Atlas 8.0.

Deployable on Any Cloud or on premise

Yes. MongoDB Atlas runs on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, and can also be deployed on-premises or even on developers' own laptops

Data Model Flexibility and Transactional Integrity

MongoDB Atlas supports distributed multi-document ACID transactions, document sizes up to 16MB, and schema governance.

Part of a developer data platform

Yes. MongoDB Atlas offers integrated full text search, auto-archiving, federated queries, and edge to cloud data sync.

Cosmos DB

Fully Compatible with MongoDB

Claims support of v7.0 API. No MongoDB Atlas server side code. Limited compatibility with MongoDB.

Deployable on Any Cloud or on premise

No, runs on Azure only.

Data Model Flexibility and Transactional Integrity

Cosmos DB does not offer the full data type, schema governance, and transactional support available in MongoDB Atlas.

Part of a developer data platform

No. Cosmos DB forces developers to work with 5 different APIs to deliver full application functionality.

See the full comparison table that includes CosmosDB: MongoDB Atlas Comparison

Choose MongoDB Atlas’s Seamless Developer Experience

Cosmos DB requires five separate and incompatible APIs to deliver the functionality offered by MongoDB Atlas. You may as well run five separate databases. With its powerful query language and aggregation pipeline, distributed multi-document ACID transactions, schema governance, client-side field level encryption, queryable encryption and more, you can build, scale, and secure applications faster, with lower effort on MongoDB Atlas.

Deploy Where its Best for
Your Applications

Cosmos DB only can be deployed on Microsoft’s cloud. MongoDB Atlas runs on AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, and with multi-cloud clusters, a single cluster runs across all three platforms. In addition, MongoDB can be deployed on infrastructure you manage yourself - giving you complete freedom to run anywhere.

Work With a Modern Database Platform

MongoDB Cloud is a foundation for working with data. MongoDB Atlas, Search, and Data Federation serve any class of transactional, operational or analytics workloads through a common API, while Atlas App Services and Atlas for the Edge extend the data foundation to the edge.