Many of us need MongoDB Enterprise Edition but might be short of resources or would like to compare the value.

I have summarized several key features of MongoDB Enterprise Edition and their alternatives:

• MongoDB Cloud Manager: Performance monitoring ($500/yr/machine) => $1000-1500
• Datadog/NewRelic => $120-$180/yr per machine, Datadog is better for this case
• DYI using tools such as mongotop, mongostat, Mtools and integrate with grapha and others

Replication is recommended and is part of the community edition:

Replica set => min 3 nodes, at least 2 data nodes in 3 data centers (2 major DC and one small).

There are 3 major options (that can be combined of course):

• fsync to MongoDB and physical backup:
• Fast backup/restore
• Might be inconsistent/unreliable
• Logical backup: based on mongodump
• Can be done w/ $2.5/GB using the cloud manager w/ Point in time recovery
• Can be done w/ Percona hot backup
• Incremental is supported
• Have a delayed node

The first two may be done using a 3rd data node in hidden for backup (high frequency backup) that enable

• Disk-based encryption => data at rest (can be done in AWS and several storage providers)
• eCryptFS => Percona => data at Rest
• Encryption based application by the programmers in the class level before saving to disk.

Using Percona edition is a good alternative that may close many of your enterprise needs.

It is well supported with MongoDB BI Connector in the enterprise edition but can be done also with:

• Some BI tool supports MongoDB natively
• 3rd party provider for JDBC connector: such as Simba and https://www.progress.com/jdbc/mongodb

Getting your MongoDB Community Edition to meet Enterprise requirements is not simple, but with the right effort, it can be done.