We performed a comparison between Amazon Neptune and Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and others in Managed NoSQL Databases."Relational databases are never good at identifying patterns in graphs or other similar relationships, whereas Amazon Neptune is."
"Since it's a managed service, Azure backend handles scalability. From a user's perspective, we don't need to worry about scalability."
"The initial setup is simple and straightforward. You can set up a Cosmos DB in a day, even configuring things like availability zones around the world."
"Cosmos DB is a pretty stable solution. I would rate it a ten out of ten."
"The biggest benefit it offers is scalability. It's easier to work with concurrency and updating data."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is scalable with multiple master files."
"Cosmos DB makes life easier because if we want to use Mongo-type data, or Cassandra-type data, or maybe even just a simple cable storage-type data, then graph, there are multiple ways to do this."
"It is non-SQL and helps to manage and manipulate data from the coding, rather than direct data and complex queries."
"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 API compatibility has room for improvement, particularly integration with MongoDB. You have to connect to a specific flavor of MongoDB. We'd also like a richer query capability in line with the latest Mongo features. That is one thing on our wish list. The current version is good enough for our use case, but it could be improved."
"A couple features that would help me in architectural solutions would be customizable architecture or customizable documentation, which both Microsoft Azure or Microsoft Teams can provide."
"The query is a little complex. SQL server should have more options. But the query should be better."
"I don't think Cosmos DB has improved our organization. People are using it, but I'm not sure it's the best solution. For one, it's costly. Also, there are other issues with it. You cannot get all the records simultaneously. You can only get it in chunks of 1,500 maximum."
"The biggest problem is the learning curve and other database services like RDS."
"A further simple application is required for Brazil."
"It is not as easy to use as DynamoDB."
"It would be ideal if we could integrate Cosmos DB with our Databricks. At this point, that's not possible."
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Amazon Neptune is ranked 4th in Managed NoSQL Databases while Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB is ranked 1st in Managed NoSQL Databases with 38 reviews. Amazon Neptune is rated 9.0, while Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon Neptune writes "Useful pattern identification, price well, and straightforward implementation". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB writes "Removes bottlenecks related to databases in our application and works quickly because of reference keys". Amazon Neptune is most compared with Amazon DynamoDB, Neo4j AuraDB, Amazon Timestream and Amazon DocumentDB, whereas Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB is most compared with Amazon DynamoDB, Google Cloud Bigtable, Amazon DocumentDB, Neo4j AuraDB and Amazon Timestream.
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