# Elasticsearch vs MongoDB

| Attribute | Elasticsearch | MongoDB |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 73 (58% (medium)) | 75.7 (71% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 18,551 | 8 |
| adoption.github_stars | 78,195 | 28,614 |
| adoption.stackoverflow_questions | - | 170,000 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A search and analytics platform that ingests, stores, and searches structured, unstructured, and vector data in real time. Supports full-text search, vector search, observability analytics, and security event analysis through a unified REST API and query language. It is indexed under Search Engines.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"What is Elasticsearch?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elasticsearch is a paid product; published pricing starts at $99 per month. It is sold across 4 plans (Standard, Gold, Platinum and Enterprise). There is no free tier. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"How much does Elasticsearch cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Elasticsearch supports the web, Windows, macOS, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"What platforms does Elasticsearch support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Elasticsearch can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"Can Elasticsearch be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 32 integrations for Elasticsearch, including Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, IBM Resilient, xMatters and GitHub, plus 24 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"What does Elasticsearch integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed GDPR for Elasticsearch. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Elasticsearch not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/trust/ai-data-faq","question":"What security certifications does Elasticsearch have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Elasticsearch is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","question":"Where is Elasticsearch available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"MongoDB is a document database that stores data in flexible, JSON-like formats rather than rigid relational tables. It is designed for modern application development and supports various workload types including operational transactions, real-time search, vector search for AI applications, and streaming data processing. The flexible schema allows applications to evolve without downtime or schema migrations.","source":"https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/introduction/","question":"What is MongoDB and what type of database is it?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"MongoDB is open source under the Server Side Public License (SSPL) v1.0, which requires that enhancements to MongoDB be shared with the community. Drivers are licensed under Apache License 2.0. MongoDB also offers a commercial license for organizations whose legal requirements are incompatible with SSPL, and a separately available MongoDB Enterprise Advanced edition.","source":"https://www.mongodb.com/community/licensing","question":"Is MongoDB open source and what license does it use?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"MongoDB provides official client libraries for almost all modern programming languages and is compatible with popular application frameworks. Common stacks include MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) and MEAN (MongoDB, Express, Angular, Node.js). Developers can access language-specific API documentation and driver references for their chosen technology stack.","source":"https://www.mongodb.com/docs/","question":"What programming languages and frameworks does MongoDB support?","confidence":0.92},{"answer":"MongoDB offers three deployment models: MongoDB Atlas, a fully managed cloud service available on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud; MongoDB Enterprise Advanced for self-managed on-premises or private cloud deployments; and MongoDB Community Edition for open-source local development. Each option provides different levels of automation, support, and operational responsibility.","source":"https://www.mongodb.com","question":"What deployment options are available for MongoDB?","confidence":0.93},{"answer":"MongoDB Atlas operates on a pay-as-you-go model with a free-forever M0 tier (512 MB storage) for learning and exploration, flexible hourly clusters for development, and dedicated clusters starting around $57 per month for production workloads. Enterprise Advanced pricing is custom and available through direct sales. Costs vary based on cluster size, storage, data transfer, and optional add-on services like vector search and stream processing.","source":"https://www.mongodb.com/pricing","question":"What is MongoDB's pricing model?","confidence":0.9},{"answer":"MongoDB includes encryption at rest and in transit via TLS/SSL, multiple authentication methods (SCRAM, X.509, Kerberos, LDAP, OIDC), role-based access control, queryable encryption, client-side field-level encryption, IP access lists, and audit logging. MongoDB Atlas comes preconfigured with secure default settings and supports network peering and private endpoints across major cloud providers.","source":"https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/security/","question":"What enterprise security features does MongoDB provide?","confidence":0.92},{"answer":"MongoDB uses flexible JSON-like documents instead of rigid table schemas, allowing data models to change without downtime. Embedded documents and arrays reduce the need for joins, which can improve query performance for certain workloads. The lack of enforced schemas supports polymorphic data structures where different documents in the same collection can have different fields, though this flexibility requires different application design patterns than relational databases.","source":"https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/introduction/","question":"What are the main differences between MongoDB and traditional relational databases?","confidence":0.93},{"answer":"Yes, MongoDB is a unified platform that combines operational data, vectors, and streaming in a single system. It includes vector search for semantic queries and AI-powered applications, stream processing via Apache Kafka integration using familiar MongoDB syntax, and real-time analytics with aggregation pipelines. This consolidation of multiple workload types can be more efficient than managing separate specialized databases.","source":"https://www.mongodb.com","question":"Can MongoDB handle real-time analytics, vector search, and streaming data?","confidence":0.91}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A search platform that distributes data across multiple nodes to handle large-scale indexing and retrieval through standard web APIs. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"both","faceting":"yes","query_dsl":"ES|QL","data_model":"document","deployment":"self_hosted","geo_search":true,"distributed":"sharded","replication":true,"sql_support":true,"index_engine":"lucene","licence_class":"source_available","log_analytics":true,"managed_cloud":true,"multi_tenancy":true,"vector_search":"hybrid_fusion","typo_tolerance":"built_in","full_text_search":true,"relevance_tuning":"ltr","realtime_indexing":"near_real_time","horizontal_scaling":true}` | `{"schema":"schemaless","hosting":"both","data_model":"document","ttl_expiry":true,"consistency":"tunable","replication":"primary_secondary","sql_support":true,"multi_region":true,"partitioning":"automatic","transactions":"multi_item_acid","license_class":"source_available","managed_cloud":true,"vector_search":true,"change_streams":true,"query_language":"mql","full_text_search":true,"acid_transactions":true,"secondary_indexes":"yes","horizontal_scaling":true}` |
| integrations.count | 350 | 6 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"IBM Resilient"},{"name":"xMatters"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Jina AI"},{"name":"NVIDIA AI"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"AWS Bedrock"},{"name":"Sarvam AI"},{"name":"Google ADK"},{"name":"LlamaParse"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"Elastic Agent"},{"name":"Beats"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Filebeat"},{"name":"Metricbeat"},{"name":"Heartbeat"},{"name":"Webhooks"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"OpenAI","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure OpenAI Service","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"NVIDIA","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Okta","native":true,"category":"auth","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Auth0","native":true,"category":"auth","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AWS S3","native":true,"category":"storage","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"infrastructure","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Anthropic","native":false,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"LlamaIndex","category":"ai"},{"name":"Red Hat","category":"infrastructure"},{"name":"Alibaba Cloud","category":"cloud"},{"name":"IBM watsonx","category":"ai"},{"name":"Cohere","category":"ai"},{"name":"LangChain","category":"ai"},{"name":"Claude","category":"ai"}]` | `[{"name":"Vertex AI"},{"name":"BigQuery"},{"name":"Datastream"},{"name":"Google Kubernetes Engine"},{"name":"Looker"},{"name":"Apigee"},{"name":"Apache Kafka"},{"name":"Google Vertex AI","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud BigQuery","native":true,"category":"analytics","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud Datastream","native":true,"category":"data_integration","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Cloud Functions","native":true,"category":"compute"},{"name":"Kubernetes","native":true,"category":"orchestration"}]` |
| language.primary | Java | C++ |
| license.spdx | - | SSPL-1.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"$99/month","features":["Distributed Elasticsearch across AWS, Azure, GCP","ES|QL query language and APIs","Default monitoring and AutoOps","Alerting with detection engine","Malware prevention","Cloud security posture management","APM, logging, metrics","Synthetic monitoring (limited)","Universal Profiling","LLM observability","Limited support (3-business day response)"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Entry-level plan with distributed Elasticsearch across cloud providers, API access, monitoring, security alerts, and observability basics.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Gold","summary":"$114/month","features":["All Standard features","Reporting","Third-party alerting actions","Watcher","Multi-stack monitoring","Enterprise Search","External detection notifications","Base support (business hours, 1-day response for high)"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":114,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Includes Standard features plus reporting, enterprise search, advanced security, and base support with business hours availability.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Platinum","summary":"$131/month with SLA","features":["All Gold features","Machine learning (anomaly detection, supervised learning)","Vector search with ELSER and e5 models","Cross-cluster replication","Log categorization","Service maps, tail-based sampling","APM correlations","ML-powered SIEM rules","Enhanced support (24/7, 1-hour urgent response)","99.95% uptime SLA"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":131,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Includes Gold features plus machine learning, advanced security, vector search with ML models, semantic reranking, and 24/7 support.","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"$184/month","features":["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)","GPU inference with Elastic Inference Service","Elastic Agent Builder with LLM","AI-powered dashboard creation","Elastic Workflows (automation)","SAML SSO","AI Playground for RAG","Inference Service Management","Semantic reranking with ML models","Learn-to-Rank personalization","Storage optimization (DiskBBQ)","Attack Discovery with agentic investigation","Premium support (30-minute urgent response)","Cloud workload protection"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":184,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Includes Platinum features plus searchable snapshots, GPU inference, AI-driven workflows, agent building, data federation, and premium support.","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Synthetic Monitoring - Browser Tests","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"test run"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0123,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Synthetic Monitoring - Lightweight Tests","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":28,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"From $99/month. Free 14-day trial available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://www.elastic.co/pricing/cloud-hosted","retrievedAt":"2026-09-07T13:11:22.839Z","freeTrialDays":14,"startingPrice":{"amount":99,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free (M0)","summary":"Free forever","features":["512MB storage","32MB sort memory","100 ops/sec","shared vCPUs","replica set"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Fully managed free-forever tier for learning and pre-production workloads","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"storage":"512MB","sort_memory":"32MB","operations_per_second":"100"}},{"free":false,"name":"Flex Clusters","summary":"$8–$30/month based on usage","features":["hourly billing","monthly invoices"],"description":"Usage-based pricing for variable workloads","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Dedicated Clusters","summary":"From $56.94/month","features":["dedicated resources","auto-scaling","horizontal scaling via sharding"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":56.94,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"High-performance dedicated infrastructure for production workloads","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Atlas Search and Vector Search Add-on","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"MongoDB Search and Vector Search Add-on (Enterprise clusters)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":9,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"fixed","amount":25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS)","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":9,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"fixed","amount":25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Atlas SQL Interface (Dedicated Cluster)"},{"name":"Atlas SQL Interface (Data Federation)","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"TB"},"kind":"metered","amount":5,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Atlas Data Federation"}],"summary":"Free tier (512MB), Flex from $8–$30/month, Dedicated from $56.94/month","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.mongodb.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-05T10:04:54.879Z","startingPrice":{"amount":56.94,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | no | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | high | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":99,"currency":"USD"}` | `{"amount":56.94,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 1 | 30 |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.22","date":"2026-09-23T15:20:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.22"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.4","date":"2026-09-15T18:19:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.7","date":"2026-09-15T18:19:34Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.3","date":"2026-09-03T10:08:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.6","date":"2026-09-01T12:51:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.21","date":"2026-09-01T12:53:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.21"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.2","date":"2026-08-20T16:44:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.1","date":"2026-08-11T17:58:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.5","date":"2026-08-11T17:57:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.20","date":"2026-08-11T18:24:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.20"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.5.0","date":"2026-08-04T11:46:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.4","date":"2026-07-21T12:56:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.8","date":"2026-07-21T12:56:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.19","date":"2026-07-21T13:28:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.19"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.18","date":"2026-06-30T16:43:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.18"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.7","date":"2026-06-30T16:47:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.3","date":"2026-06-30T14:30:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v8.19.17","date":"2026-06-23T13:59:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v8.19.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.3.6","date":"2026-06-23T14:09:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.3.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/releases/tag/v9.4.2","date":"2026-05-28T14:59:44Z","type":"stable","version":"v9.4.2"}]` | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.95 | 99.99 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | - | `[{"name":"SOC 2","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO/IEC 27001:2022","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO/IEC 27017:2015","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO/IEC 27018:2019","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 9001:2015","status":"active"},{"name":"PCI DSS","status":"active"},{"name":"HIPAA","status":"active"},{"name":"HITRUST","status":"active"},{"name":"GDPR","status":"active"},{"name":"FedRAMP Moderate Authorized","level":"Moderate","status":"active"},{"name":"IRAP","status":"active"},{"name":"TX-RAMP","status":"active"},{"name":"TISAX","status":"active"},{"name":"CSA STAR","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.fedramp | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 6.4 | 4.8 |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.elastic.co/legal/trade-compliance | https://www.mongodb.com/products/platform/trust |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":45,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.elasticsearch%3Aelasticsearch&per_page=100","last_12m":2,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=conda&package_name=mongodb&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Databases)

| Capability | Elasticsearch | MongoDB |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Data model | Document | Document |
| ACID transactions | - | ✓ |
| SQL support | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Horizontal scaling / sharding | ✓ | ✓ |
| Replication | ✓ | - |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Full-text search | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vector search | - | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Managed cloud offering | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-17T06:42:49.777Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*