# Amazon DocumentDB: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 13 judge labels across 1 category by 10 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-documentdb

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [NoSQL databases](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/nosql-databases/index.md) | 0% | 13 | 15% | 13 |

## What the models said for it

- "Strict AWS-only environments | Fully managed MongoDB-compatible API" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, NoSQL)
- "Best for AWS teams needing MongoDB compatibility: Amazon DocumentDB" (Muse Glimmer 30B, NoSQL)
- "Good if heavily invested in AWS ecosystem" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, NoSQL)

## And against it

- "The same pattern holds for AWS DocumentDB ... If multi-cloud portability is a requirement, prefer open-source, self-hostable engines" (Muse Glimmer 30B, NoSQL)
- "if you expect it to be interchangeable with MongoDB — It supports many MongoDB APIs, but AWS documents functional differences" (GPT-6 Luna, NoSQL)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Amazon DocumentDB, from 20 of the 29 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- docs.aws.amazon.com: 12 (its own site)
- aws.amazon.com: 8 (its own site)
- learn.microsoft.com: 8
- couchbase.com: 6
- mongodb.com: 6
- g2.com: 5
- cloud.google.com: 4
- gane.ai/index: 4
- github.com: 4
- scylladb.com: 4

### Pages cited

- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/decision-guides/latest/decision-guides/databases-on-aws-how-to-choose.html: 7
- https://aws.amazon.com/nosql: 5
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/modernizing-document-storage-for-search-scale-and-agility: 3
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/data-guide/technology-choices/understand-data-store-models: 3
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/cosmos-db: 2
- https://builder.aws.com/content/3L2JpcVYmtzeYejrf2x4Npwcauw/nosql-on-aws: 2
- https://ciopages.com/buyer-guides/database-platform: 2
- https://dataversity.net/articles/choose-right-nosql-database-application: 2

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.