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"Relational databases are never good at identifying patterns in graphs or other similar relationships, whereas Amazon Neptune is."

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"The best feature is the velocity to make a query.""Since it's a managed service, Azure backend handles scalability. From a user's perspective, we don't need to worry about scalability.""Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB's most valuable feature is latency.""Its wide support to the ecosystem is valuable. We can use this database with a lot of use cases, and that's one of the reasons why we prefer it. We have a lot of vendors, databases, and use cases, and wherever possible, we are trying to standardize databases. It is also secure.""The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB were the general infrastructure, ease to use, and interface.""The most valuable feature of the solution is that it is scalable with multiple master files.""The most valuable features for our organization with Azure Cosmos DB are multi-master capability for applications, automatic failover ensuring high availability, scalability, support for multiple data models, and low-latency access.""The solution is extremely user-friendly and easy to navigate."

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"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."

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"Sometimes, the solution's access request takes time, which should be improved.""The tool's pricing is expensive.""It is not as easy to use as DynamoDB.""The solution’s pricing could be improved.""Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB's performance could be better. In large volumes of documents, the querying process becomes slow and complicated.""Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB's pricing model is complicated, which people don't understand.""I would like the speed of transferring data to be improved.""I have been a devoted Microsoft fan, but Redis DB's memory caching capabilities are really making progress. Even if Cosmos DB is continuously improving and is quite advanced in the field of internal memory optimization, I would still recommend Redis DB to a customer."

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  • "Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS are on par for pricing and Google has been raising its prices."
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  • "Cosmos should be cheaper. We actually intend to stop using it in the near future because the price is too high."
  • "There is a licensing fee."
  • "For the cloud, we don't pay for the license, but for the on-prem versions, we do pay."
  • "Cosmos DB is a PaaS, so there are no upfront costs for infrastructure. There are only subscriptions you pay for Azure and things like that. But it's a PaaS, so it's a subscription service. The license isn't perpetual, and the cost might seem expensive on its face, but you have to look at the upkeep for infrastructure and what you're saving."
  • "The price of Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB could be a bit lower."
  • "The cost is the biggest limitation of this solution."
  • "Azure is a pay as you go subscription."
  • "The RU's use case determines our license fees."
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    Top Answer: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.
    Top Answer:With heavy use, like a large-scale IoT implementation, you could easily hit a quarter of a million dollars a month in Azure charges if Cosmos DB is a big part of it.
    Top Answer:The downside is that Cosmos is new and fairly complex. There's a limited pool of talent who are really good at working with it. Because of that, I've been approached by recruiters quite a bit; they… more »
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    Also Known As
    Microsoft Azure DocumentDB, MS Azure Cosmos DB
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    Overview

    Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. The core of Amazon Neptune is a purpose-built, high-performance graph database engine optimized for storing billions of relationships and querying the graph with milliseconds latency. Amazon Neptune supports popular graph models Property Graph and W3C's RDF, and their respective query languages Apache TinkerPop Gremlin and SPARQL, allowing you to easily build queries that efficiently navigate highly connected datasets. Neptune powers graph use cases such as recommendation engines, fraud detection, knowledge graphs, drug discovery, and network security.

    Amazon Neptune is highly available, with read replicas, point-in-time recovery, continuous backup to Amazon S3, and replication across Availability Zones. Neptune is secure with support for HTTPS encrypted client connections and encryption at rest. Neptune is fully managed, so you no longer need to worry about database management tasks such as hardware provisioning, software patching, setup, configuration, or backups.

    DocumentDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service built for fast and predictable performance, high availability, elastic scaling, global distribution, and ease of development. As a schema-free NoSQL database, DocumentDB provides rich and familiar SQL query capabilities with consistent low latencies on JSON data - ensuring that 99% of your reads are served under 10 milliseconds and 99% of your writes are served under 15 milliseconds. These unique benefits make DocumentDB a great fit for web, mobile, gaming, and IoT, and many other applications that need seamless scale and global replication.

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    Intuit, Pearson, Samsung, Ignition One, Lifeomic, Blackfynn, Paysense
    American Cancer Society, Exxon Mobil, Symantec
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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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