MongoDB
This is a very noob question. I'm understanding my pricing before getting started. Do I still have to host my MongoDB database in Atlas and consider their pricing https://www.mongodb.com/pricing on top of Railway's costs? Or does the Railway MongoDB service host my database for me?
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The Railway MongoDB database service allows you to provision and connect to a MongoDB database with zero configuration. When you run railway run in a project with the MongoDB database service installed, we inject several environment variables. Therefore, you do not need to host your MongoDB database in Atlas and consider their pricing.
⚠️ experimental feature
Is this correct? It sounds like the Railway service connects to the database but does not host it.
It's true but you can still use atlas if you like Thier pricing
OK, so I don't have to use or pay for Atlas? Will there be an extra cost incurred on Railway for the MongoDB database?
So it's either pay a fee to Atlas or Railway for the MongoDB database?
this is correct, Railway uses the open source MongoDB database to launch their own hosted solution completely outside of MongoDB's managed solution: Atlas.
I recently switched from MongoDB Atlas to Railway's hosted mongodb (for simplicity) actually - works well
Thank you so much!