AWS Neptune

Founded by Matt Garman in 2018

A fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database service built to easily build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets.

Cost

Paid

Rating

★ Highly Positive

Time to value

Minutes to Hours

Amazon Neptune is a purpose-built, high-performance graph database engine optimized for storing billions of relationships and querying graphs with millisecond latency. It supports popular graph models like Property Graph and W3C's RDF, enabling flexible querying via languages like Apache TinkerPop Gremlin, openCypher, and SPARQL. As a fully managed AWS service, Neptune automates time-consuming tasks such as hardware provisioning, software patching, setup, configuration, and backups. It features a distributed, fault-tolerant storage system that automatically scales up to 128 TiB per database cluster, ensures high availability with up to 15 low-latency read replicas, and provides robust enterprise security features like encryption at rest and in transit.

What AWS Neptune does

Storing highly interconnected relational dataQuerying identity and social networksBuilding fraud detection patternsMapping driving routes or logistics pipelinesDeveloping recommendation enginesCreating and maintaining enterprise knowledge graphsBuilt-in integration with Amazon SageMaker to apply Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) automatically over connected data.Automatically replicates data across 3 Availability Zones, handling instant failover in less than 30 seconds.Automatically scales database capacity up and down based on the application's actual workload, preventing over-provisioning costs.Seamlessly runs both Property Graphs and RDF/W3C frameworks on a single architecture.

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