No more typing reviews! Try our Samantha, our new voice AI agent.

MongoDB Enterprise Advanced vs Neo4j Graph Database comparison

Why PeerSpot?
 

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

MongoDB Enterprise Advanced
Ranking in NoSQL Databases
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
82
Ranking in other categories
Open Source Databases (8th), Managed NoSQL Databases (4th)
Neo4j Graph Database
Ranking in NoSQL Databases
10th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the NoSQL Databases category, the mindshare of MongoDB Enterprise Advanced is 12.7%, down from 16.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Neo4j Graph Database is 6.0%, up from 5.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
NoSQL Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced12.7%
Neo4j Graph Database6.0%
Other81.3%
NoSQL Databases
 

Featured Reviews

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.
RT
VP odfTechnology at Enterpi Software Solutions Private Limited
Delivers superior search and data aggregation capabilities
Neo4j helps with advanced search needs, providing good search results and aggregates compared to MongoDB. Aggregating with MongoDB can be difficult; however, with Neo4j, it's easier. Aggregating data, backing up, and creating new clusters are user-friendly from the back end. In DevOps web deployment, we noticed no database issues. We created Docker instances and set them up efficiently, managing databases up to 50 gigabytes.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"MongoDB's best features are scalability, document management, and data security."
"I would recommend MongoDB because it is widely used by many organizations."
"MongoDB has a simple data-loading interface."
"Now we actually have some results which prove that the MongoDB way is a positive way and this is what we ended up using for other scenarios."
"The solution is stable and the performance is good."
"The most valuable features of MongoDB are we have a lot of documentation and SQL-based applications that run on it."
"Based on our experience so far, it is stable."
"We are using real-time analytics and monitoring in MongoDB Enterprise Advanced; it is integrated—the existing advanced feature is integrated with our business analytics interface, and all the various business intelligence reports are generated from that."
"It enables circumstances which would have been a complex problem to be simplified."
"The solution's best feature is how it differs from traditional SQL databases. It's hard to map people and find those near me in SQL, which requires long, complex queries. Neo4j Graph Database makes this easier with simpler queries. It also supports more data types, like JSON, which SQL doesn't."
"Enables people to understand what the business problem is and how the technology helps."
"Neo4j helps with advanced search needs, providing good search results and aggregates compared to MongoDB."
"The graph modeling paradigm suits our data set well, where there may be orders of magnitude more connections between data points than data points themselves."
"As a graph database, I am surprised at their performance and response time."
"It is good for search-based tasks, providing solid search results and aggregate results."
"Creates the ability to visualize outputs."
 

Cons

"There is room for improvement in integrating MongoDB with agentive AI solutions."
"It would be good to have scalability for clusters. For example, if we have three clusters, we should be able to increase to five clusters if required. I am not sure if such a feature is currently there. I hope there is good documentation for this."
"I feel that most people don't know a lot about MongoDB, so maybe they could add some more documentation and tutorials."
"The product's data consistency could be more efficient than traditional SQLs."
"I suppose it could be a little more secure."
"We'd like information about client onboarding experience and success stories. It would help to have something to show to internal stakeholders."
"The solution could have more integration."
"When I want to connect to a node, I need to supply the certificate that MongoDB trusts, even though I use an admin password."
"There are concerns about performance and whether the tool can necessarily scale to provide the solution."
"For me, when the tool was deployed on an on-premises model, it was a little bit difficult the first time."
"So far, we have not had any issues and are happy with the product in general."
"There are things I found unintuitive or difficult to understand, however I can't say this is a deficiency in the product and likely more a function of my relatively low experience."
"The only problem is that the community is quite small."
"The tool could improve by having more resources, especially for Golang, which we use. It lacks good basic libraries and doesn't have an ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) tool, which many NoSQL databases have. We thought about building an ORM for the Neo4j Graph Database but are too busy."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We use the open-source version, which is available to use free of charge."
"MongoDB has a free version. You can also buy the enterprise edition, which is cheaper than Oracle."
"At the moment, all customers are using the community version."
"It is rather expensive."
"There are different licenses available to be purchased, such as individual, premium, or enterprise."
"MongoDB is a bit expensive compared to its competitors."
"MongoDB is an open-source solution."
"It's a community edition, so we do not pay anything."
"The tool is not expensive."
"The solution is open source so that you can use it for free. They also offer an enterprise version with its billing. If your company is earning well, I suggest using the enterprise version. Otherwise, you can deploy it on your own cloud and pay based on usage."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which NoSQL Databases solutions are best for your needs.
913,806 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Construction Company
10%
University
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business36
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise39
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

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.
What needs improvement with Neo4j Graph Database?
The only problem is that the community is quite small.
What is your primary use case for Neo4j Graph Database?
We have used Neo4j in microservices. In one of the microservices, we used Neo4j since we have some requirements similar to MongoDB plus Elasticsearch. It performs both functions. Instead of doing t...
What advice do you have for others considering Neo4j?
We have used both editions without any difficulty. In the fourth year, they provided the software, and we installed three additional community editions with no issues. Backing up required some effo...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Facebook, MetLife, City of Chicago, Expedia, eBay, Google
Walmart, Telenor, Wazoku, Adidas, Cerved, GameSys, eBay, Schleich, ICIJ, die Bayerisch, Megree, InfoJobs, LinkedIn
Find out what your peers are saying about MongoDB Enterprise Advanced vs. Neo4j Graph Database and other solutions. Updated: September 2026.
913,806 professionals have used our research since 2012.