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Compare various solutions to deploy

MongoDB in Kubernetes
There are multiple ways to deploy and manage MongoDB in Kubernetes. Here we will
focus on comparing the following open source solutions:

Bitnami Helm chart

KubeDB

MongoDB Community Operator

Percona Operator for MongoDB

Generic
Here is the review of generic features, such as supported MongoDB versions, open
source models and more.

Feature/Product Percona Bitnami KubeDB for MongoDB MongoD

Operator Helm Chart MongoDB Community Enterpri
for Operator Operato
MongoDB

Open source Apache 2.0 Apache 2.0 Open core Open core Open co
model

MongoDB MongoDB MongoDB MongoDB MongoDB MongoD

versions 5.0, 6.0, 7.0 5.0 3.4, 3.6. 4.2, 4.4, 5.0, 4.2, 4.4,
4.0, 4.1, 4.2 6.0, 7.0 6.0, 7.0

Kubernetes Various No No No No
conformance versions guarantee guarantee guarantee guarante
are tested

Cluster-wide Yes Not an Enterprise Yes Yes

mode operator only

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Feature/Product Percona Bitnami KubeDB for MongoDB MongoD

Operator Helm Chart MongoDB Community Enterpri
for Operator Operato
MongoDB

Network Yes Yes No, only No Yes

exposure through
manual
config

Web-based GUI Percona kubedb-ui Ops

Everest Manage

Maintenance
Upgrade and scaling are the two most common maintenance tasks that are executed
by database administrators and developers.

Feature/Product Percona Bitnami KubeDB for MongoDB MongoD

Operator Helm Chart MongoDB Community Enterpri
for Operator Operato
MongoDB

Operator Yes Helm Image Yes Yes

upgrade upgrade change

Database Automated No Manual Manual Yes

upgrade minor, minor minor and
manual major
major

Compute Horizontal Horizontal Enterprise Horizontal Yes

scaling and vertical and vertical only only

Storage scaling Yes Manual Enterprise No Yes

only

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MongoDB topologies
The next comparison is focused on replica sets, arbiters, sharding and other node
types.

Feature/Product Percona Bitnami KubeDB for MongoDB MongoD

Operator Helm Chart MongoDB Community Enterpri
for Operator Operato
MongoDB

Multi-cluster Yes No No No Yes

deployment

Sharding Yes Yes, Yes No Yes

another
chart

Arbiter Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

Non-voting Yes No No No Yes

nodes

Hidden nodes No Yes Yes Yes Yes

Network Yes Yes Manual No Yes

exposure

Backups
Here are the backup and restore capabilities of each solution.

Feature/Product Percona Bitnami KubeDB for MongoDB MongoD

Operator Helm Chart MongoDB Community Enterpri
for Operator Operato
MongoDB

Scheduled Yes No Enterprise No Yes

backups only

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Feature/Product Percona Bitnami KubeDB for MongoDB MongoD

Operator Helm Chart MongoDB Community Enterpri
for Operator Operato
MongoDB

Incremental No No Enterprise No No
backups only

Point-in-time Yes No No No Yes

recovery

Logical backups Yes No No No Yes

Physical Yes No No No Yes

backups

Monitoring
Monitoring is crucial for any operations team.

Feature/Product Percona Bitnami KubeDB for MongoDB MongoD

Operator Helm Chart MongoDB Community Enterpri
for Operator Operato
MongoDB

Custom Yes, mongodb- mongodb- Integrate Integrate

exporters through exporter as exporter as with with
sidecars a sidecar a sidecar prometheus prometh
operator operator

Percona Yes No No No No
Monitoring and
Management
(PMM)

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Miscellaneous
Finally, let’s compare various features that are not a good fit for other categories.

Feature/Product Percona Bitnami KubeDB for MongoDB MongoD

Operator Helm Chart MongoDB Community Enterpri
for Operator Operato
MongoDB

Customize Yes Yes Yes No, only No, only

MongoDB some some
configuration params params

Helm Yes Yes Yes, for Yes, for Yes, for

operator operator operator
only only only

SSL/TLS Yes Yes Enterprise Yes Yes

only

Create Yes Yes No Yes Yes

users/roles

Last update: 2025-01-28

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