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Compose vs Orchestrate

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When comparing Compose vs Orchestrate, the Slant community recommends Compose for most people. In the question“What are the best MongoDB-aaS providers?” Compose is ranked 2nd while Orchestrate is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Compose is:

The full service costs $45/month and there is also an option of 30 days free trial.

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Pros

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Low cost

The full service costs $45/month and there is also an option of 30 days free trial.

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Full stats reporting

All statistics are fully aggregated and reported. Nothing is withheld or hidden.

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Effortless/Automatic Scaling

Orchestrate was built for scale. Orchestrate is a full-fledged distributed data system, provided as a multi-tenant service. There is no need to manage finite server resources like disk space, CPU, or memory

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Already set up for you

Orchestrate is a Database-as-a-Service, so there is no downloading, installation, or any other administration. It also makes configuration management and deployment easy.

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Great Node.js support

Orchestrate.js is a first class client for Node.js applications

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Fault Tolerance Baked In

As a DBaaS, Orchestrate manages replicas and sharding across multiple machines. Additionally, daily backups are managed by the company.

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Multiple Query types at Low Latencies

No other database provides Full-Text-Search, Time-Series, Graph, and Key/Value APIs. Moreover, as a DBaaS, the queries are pre-optimized for low latencies. Consistently under 10ms for any query.

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Cons

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Horrible support

Support unhelpful. Their only solution to issues is to upgrade the instance size.

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Data are not on your server

Since it's a DBaaS, your data are completely on their server. It cannot be run on your server. Backup is handled by them as well, which may be good or not depending on your needs.