ScaleGrid
About ScaleGrid
ScaleGrid Pricing
ScaleGrid offers 4 different types of pricing groups; Bring Your Own Cloud, Dedicated Clusters, Shared Clusters, and Consulting. Pricing varies depending on desired amount of RAM and database type. MongoDB - AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean: starting at $20/mo Redis - AWS: starting at $9/mo Contact ScaleGrid for more specific information on pricing.
Starting price:
$10.00 per month
Free trial:
Available
Free version:
Not Available
Most Helpful Reviews for ScaleGrid
1 - 5 of 68 Reviews
James
Verified reviewer
Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2018
ScaleGrid for Startups
As the CTO of an Ad Tech startup which is currently disrupting the broadcast and broadband marketing industry, I truly appreciate how ScaleGrid is helping us rapidly grow and scale our cutting edge platform (advocado.media). ScaleGrid streamlines the MongoDB dev ops and allows us to focus on building out the business critical features that are driving the growth of our platform.
PROSThe ease of use was fantastic! The dev ops that goes into setting up scalable and redundant MongoDB clusters in Microsoft Azure is fairly daunting, but ScaleGrid automates 95% of that! They also make it very easy to switch from Azure to AWS, an initiative of ours which is currently underway. We are also currently implementing a sharding solution for improved horizontal scalability and ScaleGrid has made that process much easier to manage as well.
CONSThere is not much to not like about ScaleGrid. My biggest complaint is the lack of multi user account with groups and access controls, this forces us to use a single login to manage our ScaleGrid instances, which is not ideal. I think the monitoring metrics are in a pretty good place now but could be improved to be more on par with what you get from a more mature platform like AWS RDS for example.
Aaron
Information Technology and Services, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2020
Just works!
Exceptional product and exceptional customer service.
PROSAlthough I could have spun up yet another database in Azure or AWS, I found during the proof of concept stage that even though it is an Azure or AWS solution that ScaleGrid is managing, the throughput and reliability is much higher. In fact, it is because ScaleGrid effectively manage the instance for us that I decided to let them take the hassle.
CONSIt is slightly more expensive than going direct but the value add of being fully managed and pre-configured was worth the additional spend.
Reason for choosing ScaleGrid
ScaleGrid is a fully managed service where we didn't have to go through pages and pages of options to fine tune. It just works out of the box.
Reasons for switching to ScaleGrid
ScaleGrid's throughput and reliability was higher and it was fully managed.
Dave
Internet, 11-50 employees
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2021
Too expensive.
A basic droplet on DigitalOcean/Linode cost $5, while ScaleGrid is at $10, which is fine because they provide Dbaas. However scaling upwards becomes increasingly expensive. DO Droplet Original Price. / ScaleGrid Price $5 | $10 $10 | $35 $20 | $80 With the price difference, you are better off using MongoDB Cloud Manager, at $35/server agent. Spoke to ScaleGrid support, and they said they price this way because that's how DigitalOcean Managed Databases are priced, which I find it quite a laugh. DigitalOcean, as the service provider, also provides the SLA, and automatic failover, while ScaleGrid is basically just... a web interface. Conclusion: Just overly expensive for the service it's providing.
PROSI'm using MongoDB and it's easy to spin up a database, though it takes about 20 minutes to complete the set up. Backup services etc seems ideal, with different frequency settings. Automatic replica and sharded cluster set ups (though I've never tried).
CONSExpensive, just expensive. Slow - Spinning up server takes a long time (20-30 minutes). Updating takes a long time. Migration also takes a long time. They claimed they use encryption at rest, while that is only available in MongoDB Enterprise version. They are not using enterprise version.
Vendor Response
Thanks for sharing your experience! Regarding setup, it takes 15-20 mins to spin up a cluster as we create dedicated machines from scratch, saving users 3x the time through automation. Updates/migrations do take time, as these are performed so there is no downtime. We perform encryption at rest using OS encryption based on LUKS - so you don't need MongoDB enterprise for it. DigitalOcean as a service provider does not provide the services you need for a production database - high availability, backup/restore, monitoring, upgrade, support, etc. A better comparison is against DigitalOcean managed databases where we average 30% more storage for the same price. ScaleGrid is the actual management platform, DigitalOcean is simply the cloud resources offered through our service. If you compare our DBaaS vs. DigitalOcean, you'll see we offer 40% higher throughput and 30% lower latency: https://scalegrid.io/blog/best-mysql-digitalocean-performance-scalegrid-vs-digitalocean-managed-databases/
Replied February 2021
Dylan
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2020
Untitled Review
We previously used mlab for our hosted MongoDB needs, but they shut down. Out of all competitors ScaleGrid stood out to us because of their fair pricing and simple setup.
CONSWe would have liked to have our test/staging environment on a different cluster. This would double our costs though. Mlab offered free environments for testing. They had very small data allowance, but it was perfect for us. We now had to opt into having our test database live on the same cluster. It's okay, but that could be improved. Accessing backups is also cumbersome. Often I just need to look up something that for instance got deleted by accident. These are small issues and definitely not a deal breaker.
Reasons for switching to ScaleGrid
They got aquired and ended their service. The aquirerer's service didn't work well with our setup.
Derek
Marketing and Advertising, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed June 2020
Easy to setup no issues yet
So far no issues.=
PROSSetup a production Mongo database in less than a few hours. I had a few questions for the support team and they were quick to respond.
CONSIt wasn't clear to me about which nodes I should setup the replica set. Support helped me with this.
Reason for choosing ScaleGrid
Had the ability to setup a database within Digital Ocean.
Reasons for switching to ScaleGrid
Terrible queries and resources for complex architectures. We choose the wrong database.