Service comparison

CockroachDB vs. MongoDB Atlas

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

Last 90 days · 22 incidents total · Data via Pulsetic monitoring

Head-to-head

90-day summary

CockroachDB

cockroachlabs.com

Online
- 90-day uptime
  
  98.99%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  3
  
  2 major · 1 minor
- Median resolution
  
  1h 16m
- Longest outage
  
  20h 3m
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MongoDB Atlas

mongodb.com

Major outage
- 90-day uptime
  
  92.44%
- Incidents (90d)
  
  19
  
  5 major · 14 minor
- Median resolution
  
  1h 32m
- Longest outage
  
  92h 53m
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Uptime over time

Availability across windows

Window	CockroachDB	MongoDB Atlas	Δ
Last 24 hours	100.00%	100.00%	0.00 pp
Last 7 days	100.00%	100.00%	0.00 pp
Last 30 days	97.22%	95.01%	+2.21 pp
Last 90 days	98.99%	92.44%	+6.55 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
  
  1h 16m
- Longest outage
  
  20h 3m
MongoDB Atlas

19 total

5 major 14 minor
- Median resolution
  
  1h 32m
- Longest outage
  
  92h 53m

Recent activity

Last 5 incidents, side-by-side

CockroachDB
- Aug 4
  
  Cluster connectivity and execution issues
  
  20h 3m
  
  Major
- Jul 12
  
  Cluster Creation Failure
  
  1h 16m
  
  Major
- 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
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MongoDB Atlas
- Aug 28
  
  MongoDB Atlas Log Integration service degraded
  
  < 1m
  
  Minor
- Aug 19
  
  Issues rotating certificates for projects containing only Atlas Free and Flex clusters
  
  1d 1h 21m
  
  Minor
- Aug 18
  
  Atlas UI and API Periodic Unavailability
  
  1h 6m
  
  Minor
- Aug 5
  
  GCP capacity constraints affecting Atlas deployments
  
  6h 56m
  
  Major
- Aug 3
  
  Elevated errors on VoyageAI APIs
  
  2h 31m
  
  Major
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Bottom line

CockroachDB wins

CockroachDB edges out on 90-day uptime.

CockroachDB posted 98.99% vs. 92.44% for MongoDB Atlas (Δ +6.55 pp). Incidents: 3 vs. 19 (-16).

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