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Amazon Neptune vs MongoDB Enterprise Advanced comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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
8th
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 (5th), NoSQL Databases (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Managed NoSQL Databases category, the mindshare of Amazon Neptune is 6.1%, down from 10.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is 10.8%, up from 6.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed NoSQL Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced10.8%
Amazon Neptune6.1%
Other83.1%
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.
FG
Architecte Cloud at Visiativ SA
Offers reliable engine for legacy needs but requires enhanced cost management and AI features
While MongoDB is a good product, it is also an expensive product for support, and its scalability is acceptable, but the big problem with MongoDB is the cost. For security in MongoDB, we work with encrypted databases by default, but we have not contracted the security options in our contract because it is too expensive, so we only implement encrypted databases without the security pack, which is very expensive for us; in security, we are at the first steps, just using encrypted databases. I think additional features needed in MongoDB include perhaps vector databases, as I think they are not supported right now.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The stability of Amazon Neptune is very good."
"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."
"Relational databases are never good at identifying patterns in graphs or other similar relationships, whereas Amazon Neptune is."
"The initial setup is actually simple."
"We haven't had any issues with stability."
"The initial setup isn't really that complex."
"Opting for MongoDB could be beneficial, especially for storing large volumes of records, even for transient data."
"The aggregation framework is very powerful when elaborating on data."
"I think that MongoDB isn't too structured, and that's good for our technical team because they are able to search through the database better than if they are using SQL Server."
"It is easy to use."
"The fact is all of our users are happy with the stability and quick response times our solutions have."
"The integration capabilities of MongoDB are fine for the solutions that we use in our company."
 

Cons

"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."
"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."
"The price can always be better. I mean, we are a big corporation so it is quite expensive for us."
"MongoDB is a very useful and convenient choice, but sometimes for more complex projects, there are certain niche requirements that appear, so using a different tool could be beneficial. It raises the complexity of the architecture, but it could be beneficial to the world, the features, the ease of the features which are being implemented."
"MongoDB is the second option for non-critical processes at the moment. We do not yet trust it with critical items."
"They could provide more documentation and examples for adding pipeline stages."
"When third-party data warehouses are integrated, we are seeing some ETL job performance issues."
"I rate the support from MongoDB a four out of five."
"MongoDB should better support small and medium companies. There are a lot of clients out there that are interested, however, they need something lighter and less complex and something not so expensive upfront."
"We don't even know how to get ahold of MongoDB support."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS are on par for pricing and Google has been raising its prices."
"It's open-source."
"We use the open-source version, which is available to use free of charge."
"I currently use the solution's community edition which is free."
"This is an open-source solution."
"The solution is open source so is free."
"I believe that MongoDB is free."
"MongoDB's pricing is not reasonable, but it is not as expensive as the others."
"I'm using the free version of MongoDB."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
University
12%
Computer Software Company
10%
Construction Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
6%
University
6%
 

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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