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Amazon Neptune vs MongoDB Enterprise Advanced comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Neptune
Ranking in Managed NoSQL Databases
7th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
4.5
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced
Ranking in Managed NoSQL Databases
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (8th), NoSQL Databases (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Managed NoSQL Databases category, the mindshare of Amazon Neptune is 5.9%, down from 7.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is 11.1%, up from 11.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed NoSQL Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced11.1%
Amazon Neptune5.9%
Other83.0%
Managed NoSQL Databases
 

Featured Reviews

Reviewer3028812 - PeerSpot reviewer
Back End Developer at Zeta
Multiple graph models and languages support lead to efficient use, yet community growth brings challenges
The onboarding part and documentation where we could ideally use Amazon Neptune is excellent. Amazon Neptune as a product by AWS is exceptional because it supports multiple graph models such as RDF and property graph. It also has support for multiple querying languages such as Gremlin, SparkQL, and OpenCypher. It is very comprehensive in supporting every requirement we had at Zetta. Amazon Neptune's best features include its multiple servers, each supporting different languages such as OpenCypher, SparkQL, and RDF. For the same RDF graph or property graph, we could use multiple languages to query on different servers. This is exceptional because we have one graph DB with two endpoints exposed where we could interact with different languages on the same graph. Additionally, Amazon has a Sagemaker Jupyter Notebook which interacts with the Amazon Neptune database itself, providing a clean UI for representing nodes since the Jupyter Notebook has predefined graph representation capabilities through queries.
AB
Co-Founder at Vsigma IT Labs Pvt Ltd
Have managed customer transaction data efficiently and supported high-demand workloads with reliable performance
The integration between data warehouse could be improved. Nowadays, a lot of data is getting generated, so certain ETL flexible scripts with backend database integrations would be an improvement I could see. I will not be able to clearly say there is currently a deficiency there. All our DBs are integrated with a backend data warehouse, not necessarily AWS. When third-party data warehouses are integrated, we are seeing some ETL job performance issues. It is a one-off scenario so we have not thoroughly done any troubleshooting on that. It could be platform or third-party related issue. From the AWS standpoint, if robust integration and data warehouse integration specific tools are added in the advanced suite, that would definitely be helpful.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Amazon Neptune as a product by AWS is exceptional because it supports multiple graph models such as RDF and property graph, and it also has support for multiple querying languages such as Gremlin, SparkQL, and OpenCypher, making it very comprehensive in supporting every requirement we had at Zetta."
"The stability of Amazon Neptune is very good."
"Relational databases are never good at identifying patterns in graphs or other similar relationships, whereas Amazon Neptune is."
"The initial setup is actually simple."
"One of the biggest benefits is the speed and flexibility of the documents, especially when it comes to modifications."
"The solution is a very dynamic product, it becomes extremely easy for us to support user requirements and we also make use of the simplicity of a cloud redeployment."
"MongoDB's best features are scalability, document management, and data security."
"MongoDB is more secure than similar databases."
"I like its performance and the stability; it's very stable and, performance-wise, it's really great."
"It facilitates the generation of heatmaps for graphical data analysis."
"MongoDB is scalable and stable. The initial setup is very easy, and deployment and maintenance can be done by one person."
"It's easy to add and remove things in MongoDB. You can alter the tables. MongoDB is faster at reading, slower at writings."
 

Cons

"Amazon Neptune could improve by spreading more awareness for others to have an understanding of the solution because the technology is fairly new. The developer community and larger community do not understand it yet."
"Additionally, the need for downtime during scalability is a concern."
"We had a strict time constraint, and it took many sleepless nights to find information in the documentation."
"In my scenario, the integration wasn't easy because ................in Java."
"The solution could include more integrations with other platforms."
"The stability could be improved."
"It should have GUI for managing clusters. MongoDB needs a more powerful GUI to manage clusters and make switchovers. Currently, there is no good, free tool to check the replication to find out if there is a gap."
"The solution should have better integration."
"I'd like to see an ID generator. It's very technical but I don't think it has one, so we have to go to great lengths to work around that."
"The documentation for MongoDB is not very good and should be improved."
"MongoDB should incorporate more features, particularly search functionality, and real-time communication capabilities, to improve the database and provide data listening services. Currently, we rely on the Atlas offering, but it would be fantastic if MongoDB could develop a new solution or updated version that includes these features within its internal database and driver. However, I am uncertain if this would be a viable or profitable move for them, and I am speaking from a mobile-centric viewpoint."
"More stable indexes would be helpful in a future release. That's been an issue for some time. I don't know if it's been fixed now but we transitioned to it because we needed a search index to be able to search for things and if that goes or starts disappearing, we have to move away from that solution. I don't know if they fixed it, last time I had this issue was three years ago so they might have solved it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS are on par for pricing and Google has been raising its prices."
"MongoDB is a bit expensive compared to its competitors."
"MongoDB is not expensive."
"It's open-source."
"The product is affordable."
"There is an annual subscription for the use of this solution."
"MongoDB is an open-source solution."
"MongoDB has a free version. You can also buy the enterprise edition, which is cheaper than Oracle."
"The pricing is normal. Price-wise, the product is not too much expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
University
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Construction Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business36
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise39
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Neptune?
The cost aspects were managed by our SRE team who provisioned the instances. The pricing structure is similar to how EC2 instance pricing varies. I was informed that it was somewhat expensive, thou...
What needs improvement with Amazon Neptune?
The main issue was the limited community of Amazon Neptune users, which meant everything needed to be explored independently. Although this was adventurous, it required more time investment in the ...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Neptune?
We managed traffic at Zetta, and traffic would be moving between multiple services in our microservice architecture. Because of this setup, we were using Amazon Neptune to understand how many reque...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for MongoDB?
I think it depends on the provider. For example, on DigitalOcean, they have strict routing. You have to whitelist an IP address, or you risk getting DDoS. Then if you're going for the Atlas one tha...
What needs improvement with MongoDB?
I don't really have a deep dive into it, but I see that MongoDB Enterprise Advanced has RAG and Vertex support. However, we really didn't use it because I think one thing also is that Prisma, the O...
What is your primary use case for MongoDB?
A typical use case for MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is mostly for the database, storing our data.
 

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