Oracle Unveils MAA Platinum Tier, MongoDB Users Chuckle Over Built-In Features They’ve Had for Years

Oracle users seeking alternatives are comparing MongoDB's high availability and disaster recovery features to Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture. MongoDB's cloud-native, distributed approach embeds replication, failover, and sharding directly into its core engine, differing from Oracle's mature, integrated stack. Oracle's MAA has four tiers: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum, each adding complexity and cost. In contrast, MongoDB's availability model is built-in, with replica sets, sharding, and multi-region deployment simplifying operations. MongoDB achieves similar recovery point and time objectives as Oracle Platinum, but with a different approach, using pull-based logical replication. With MongoDB, what takes three separate licensed Oracle products to achieve is simply a topology decision, eliminating downtime for routine maintenance. While Oracle's MAA is mature, its operational cost should not be underestimated. MongoDB provides built-in high availability and disaster recovery, with RPO and RTO targets achievable without the added complexity and cost of Oracle's MAA.