Service comparison

CockroachDB vs. MongoDB Atlas

CockroachDB vs. MongoDB Atlas — reliability, API availability, and incident frequency head-to-head.

Last 90 days · 21 incidents total · Data via Pulsetic monitoring

Head-to-head

90-day summary

CockroachDB

cockroachlabs.com

Online
- 90-day uptime
  
  99.03%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  3
  
  2 major · 1 minor
- Median resolution
  
  39m
- Longest outage
  
  19h 40m
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MongoDB Atlas

mongodb.com

Major outage
- 90-day uptime
  
  75.65%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  18
  
  7 major · 11 minor
- Median resolution
  
  3h 3m
- Longest outage
  
  308h 55m
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Uptime over time

Availability across windows

Window	CockroachDB	MongoDB Atlas	Δ
Last 24 hours	97.50%	100.00%	-2.50 pp
Last 7 days	99.64%	98.75%	+0.89 pp
Last 30 days	99.92%	98.26%	+1.66 pp
Last 90 days	99.03%	75.65%	+23.38 pp

Δ is percentage-point difference (CockroachDB minus MongoDB Atlas). Higher is better.

Incidents 90-day

Severity breakdown

CockroachDB

3 total

2 major 1 minor
- Median resolution
  
  39m
- Longest outage
  
  19h 40m
MongoDB Atlas

18 total

7 major 11 minor
- Median resolution
  
  3h 3m
- Longest outage
  
  308h 55m

Recent activity

Last 5 incidents, side-by-side

CockroachDB
- Jun 9
  
  Unable to accept invites
  
  36m
  
  Minor
- May 8
  
  Degraded performance in one AWS us-east-1 availability zone
  
  19h 40m
  
  Major
- Mar 18
  
  Cloud Console Social Login Auth Unavailable
  
  39m
  
  Major
- Mar 1
  
  Cluster unavailability and degraded cluster operations in AWS me-central...
  
  10d 4h 39m
  
  Minor
- Feb 9
  
  Connectivity issues to Standard and Basic clusters on AWS
  
  12h 16m
  
  Major
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MongoDB Atlas
- Jun 4
  
  Increased error rate creating and managing Search and Vector Search indexes
  
  2h 6m
  
  Minor
- Jun 2
  
  Investigating connection issues to ADFA in GCP
  
  1h 11m
  
  Major
- May 28
  
  Metrics may fail to send to DataDog Gov integrations
  
  1h 12m
  
  Minor
- May 23
  
  Authentication failures when running search queries for some clusters
  
  6h 17m
  
  Minor
- May 22
  
  [Atlas for Government] Data plane node logs unavailable for last 6 days
  
  1h 45m
  
  Minor
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Bottom line

CockroachDB wins

CockroachDB edges out on 90-day uptime.

CockroachDB posted 99.03% vs. 75.65% for MongoDB Atlas (Δ +23.38 pp). Incidents: 3 vs. 18 (-15).

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