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Comparison

Elasticsearch vs MongoDB

No clear leader: MongoDB (75.7) and Elasticsearch (73.0) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Elasticsearch full profile →MongoDB full profile →
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Elasticsearch73
MongoDB76
Score
vioscaleAI score
Elasticsearch73 / 100medium · 58%
MongoDB76 / 100medium · 71%
Pricing
Free tier
Elasticsearch✗
MongoDB✓
Model
Elasticsearchcommercial
MongoDBfreemium
Price level
Elasticsearchhigh
MongoDBmid
Starting price
Elasticsearch$99
MongoDB$56.94
Transparent
Elasticsearch✓
MongoDB✓
Integrations
Count
Elasticsearch350
MongoDB6
Security
Certifications
Disclosure policy
Elasticsearch–
MongoDB✓
Fedramp
Elasticsearch–
MongoDB✓
Gdpr
Elasticsearch✓
MongoDB✓
Hipaa
Elasticsearch–
MongoDB✓
Iso27001
Elasticsearch–
MongoDB✓
Pci
Elasticsearch–
MongoDB✓
Scorecard
Elasticsearch6.4
MongoDB4.8
Soc2
Elasticsearch–
MongoDB✓
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
Elasticsearch99.95
MongoDB99.99
Status page
Elasticsearch✓
MongoDB✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Elasticsearch18,551
MongoDB8
Github stars
Elasticsearch78,195
MongoDB28,614
Stackoverflow questions
Elasticsearch–
MongoDB170,000
Activity
Commits last 30d
Elasticsearch100
MongoDB100
Release
Cadence days
Elasticsearch1
MongoDB30
History
Elasticsearch20 items
MongoDB–
License
Spdx
Elasticsearch–
MongoDBSSPL-1.0
Language
Primary
ElasticsearchJava
MongoDBC++
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Elasticsearch7 items
MongoDB8 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Data model
ElasticsearchDocument
MongoDBDocument
ACID transactions
Elasticsearch-
MongoDB✓
SQL support
Elasticsearch✓
MongoDB✓
Scale
Horizontal scaling / sharding
Elasticsearch✓
MongoDB✓
Replication
Elasticsearch✓
MongoDB-
Query
Full-text search
Elasticsearch✓
MongoDB✓
Vector search
Elasticsearch-
MongoDB✓
Deployment
Managed cloud offering
Elasticsearch✓
MongoDB✓
Hosting
ElasticsearchCloud + self-hosted
MongoDBCloud + self-hosted

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Elasticsearch

A search platform that distributes data across multiple nodes to handle large-scale indexing and retrieval through standard web APIs.

Independently observed

MongoDB

MongoDB is a fully managed cloud database that uses flexible document-based storage and supports complex queries, analytics, and advanced search capabilities including vector and full-text search functionality.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Elasticsearch

from $99/moSubscription14-day trial

From $99/month. Free 14-day trial available.

  • Standard$99/month
    • Distributed Elasticsearch across AWS, Azure, GCP
    • ES|QL query language and APIs
    • Default monitoring and AutoOps
    • Alerting with detection engine
    • Malware prevention
    • +6 more
  • Gold$114/month
    • All Standard features
    • Reporting
    • Third-party alerting actions
    • Watcher
    • Multi-stack monitoring
    • +3 more
  • Platinum$131/month with SLA
    • All Gold features
    • Machine learning (anomaly detection, supervised learning)
    • Vector search with ELSER and e5 models
    • Cross-cluster replication
    • Log categorization
    • +5 more
  • Enterprise$184/month
    • All Platinum features
    • Searchable snapshots in cold/frozen tiers
    • Elastic Maps Server
    • Cross-cluster search with ES|QL
    • ES|QL Data Federation (query S3 directly)
    • +13 more
as of verify ↗

MongoDB

from $56.94/moHybridFree tier

Free tier (512MB), Flex from $8–$30/month, Dedicated from $56.94/month

  • Free (M0)Free
    • 512MB storage
    • 32MB sort memory
    • 100 ops/sec
    • shared vCPUs
    • replica set
  • Flex Clusters$8–$30/month based on usage
    • hourly billing
    • monthly invoices
  • Dedicated ClustersFrom $56.94/month
    • dedicated resources
    • auto-scaling
    • horizontal scaling via sharding
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Elasticsearch✓
MongoDB✓
macOS
Elasticsearch✓
MongoDB✓
Windows
Elasticsearch✓
MongoDB✓
Linux
Elasticsearch✓
MongoDB✓
CLI
Elasticsearch✓
MongoDB✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Elasticsearch✓
MongoDB✓
Self-hosted
Elasticsearch✓
MongoDB✓
On-premise
Elasticsearch✗
MongoDB✓
Hybrid
Elasticsearch✗
MongoDB✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (1)
  • Kubernetes

Elasticsearch

43 total - 42 not shared
  • Slack
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow
  • PagerDuty
  • Microsoft Teams
  • IBM Resilient
  • xMatters
  • GitHub
  • Jina AI
  • NVIDIA AI
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Sarvam AI
  • Google ADK
  • LlamaParse
  • Mistral
  • Elastic Agent
  • Beats
  • Logstash
  • Filebeat
  • Metricbeat
  • Heartbeat
  • Webhooks
  • +18 more
Independently observed

MongoDB

12 total - 11 not shared
  • Vertex AI
  • BigQuery
  • Datastream
  • Google Kubernetes Engine
  • Looker
  • Apigee
  • Apache Kafka
  • Google Vertex AI
  • Google Cloud BigQuery
  • Google Cloud Datastream
  • Google Cloud Functions
Independently observed
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Elasticsearch or MongoDB: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.