G2

Atharva P.

Cloud BI Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/30/2026

"Amazon Neptune: High-Performance Managed Graph Database with Gremlin & SPARQL"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon Neptune?

Amazon Neptune provides a fully managed graph database optimized for highly connected datasets. I particularly like support for both Property Graph (Gremlin) and RDF/SPARQL, allowing us to model complex relationships without redesigning application architectures.

Performance has been excellent for fraud detection, recommendation engines, knowledge graphs, and dependency analysis where relational databases become inefficient. Automatic backups, Multi-AZ availability, encryption, and managed patching significantly reduce operational effort while providing enterprise-grade reliability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Neptune?

Graph databases require a different modelling approach than relational databases, so developers may need time to adapt. Highly transactional workloads with simple relationships may not justify the additional complexity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Neptune solving and how is that benefiting you?

Neptune enabled efficient querying of highly connected business data that was difficult to model in traditional relational databases.

Example: Customer accounts, devices, transactions, and authentication events were represented as graph relationships. Fraud detection queries that previously required multiple expensive SQL joins executed much faster, enabling near real-time risk analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.