Amazon DynamoDB vs Oracle Database Cloud Service

Likelihood to Recommend

It is ideal for those projects where you need to store a large amount of data, but you do not know how many will be so you need the database to increase its storage capacity together with the number of users, without having to spend extra money, it also has a great potential thanks to the fast connection it offers, so the data travels at high speed, and this speeds up the performance of the applications, excellent for projects where non-relational databases are used and what matters is to store large quantities of information and use them at high speed.

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Winston Mendes

Software Developer

Globalsoft SolutionsComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Cost Effective & Flexible: Customers can start as low as a single OCPU VM up to 24 OCPUs. Customers pay only for OCPUs and Storage used.
Ease Of Getting Started: Customers can easily create Oracle Certified, full-featured, fully supported 11g, 12c (both 12.1 & 12.2) databases with choice of any database edition.
Built-in High Availability Constructs: Customers can easily deploy 2-node RAC configurations with all the VM shapes. For example: Easily deploy a 2-node RAC configuration with 2 core Virtual Machines and shared block storage of up to 40 TB.
Durable & Scalable Storage: Customers can use remote storage starting at 256GB up to 40 TB. Storage can be scale up with no downtime.
Secure: Customers still get all the advantages of our Oracle IAM for management control and VCN Security lists for securing their database environments.

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Nagabhushan Krishnappa

Technical Lead, AWS Certified Solutions Architect

Centroid SystemsInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon DynamoDB

Oracle Database Cloud Service

Performance

Availability

Concurrency

Security

Scalability

Data model flexibility

Deployment model flexibility

Amazon DynamoDB

Oracle Database Cloud Service

Automatic software patching

Database scalability

Automated backups

Database security provisions

Monitoring and metrics

Automatic host deployment

Pros

It's very easy to get started, creating a table with a partition/sort key and you're on your way.
You can scale up and down your read/write IO as needed.
You can store structured and unstructured data.
It works great with Web Development as it's JSON based.

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Bob Smith

Founder, Owner

CodeLinguists LLCComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Eliminates the requirement of hardware and installation.
Minimizes the cost of operation and maintenance.
Scalable to meet the increase in requirements.
Enhances integrity, connectivity and performance of our applications.
Reliable in terms of data security.
Improved speed of querying and searching.

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Abdul Wahab Khan

Project Manager

Softronic Systems (Pvt) LimitedComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Cons

Complex searching (no support for case-insensitive or full-text search).
Only supports up to two-key indexes.
Requires choosing the indexes up-front when doing searches.
Does not have an SQL compatible query front-end.
No join-table support (requires putting all data into one table).

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Chris Moyer

VP of Technology

NewstexComputer Software, 1-10 employees

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Functionality to automate the backup and recovery process in Web UI can be a plus
Overall design of Web UI can be made more user intuitive

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Panav Beri

Project Engineer

Wipro LimitedInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Amazon DynamoDB 8.7

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We will most likely continue to use DynamoDB for certain use-cases. If we stopped using DynamoDB as often, it would likely be because we started using Aurora Serverless more. Aurora Serverless may offer similar availability, management and cost benefits while allowing developers to use their MySQL tools and experience.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Research Company, 11-50 employees

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Alternatives Considered

We evaluated using MongoDB or Amazon DyanmoDB. For us, the biggest advantage is that there's no maintenance cost for Amazon DynamoDB. Mongo gets complicated when you setup sharding. With Amazon DynamoDB, it's literally a push of button to increase throughput. This saves time and money on DevOps resources.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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I am an Oracle Database administrator, using Oracle for 10 years now, and I love Oracle Database Architecture overall. The Oracle database as a cloud service is an extended version of a traditional database. We initially started it to use as a data warehouse for Oracle Cloud fusion applications. Since it performed well, we are planning to use it for data marts.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Education Management Company, 501-1000 employees

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Return on Investment

Since the Amazon manages the instance, the amount of time a developer needs to spend configuring the database is less. For comparison, if we were to manage the same instance manually, we need to set up EC2 instance, install the DB, setup backup scripts, track backup failures, which is a great overhead for the dev. Using DynamoDB this overhead is reduced and hence having a great ROI.
Great documentation and easy setup makes an easy learning curve to transition to DynamoDB. Only caveat is as with any database, the data structure should be thoroughly analyzed for types of querying because there are limitations with the DynamoDB API.
Ties very well with rest of the Amazon eco system. Having rest of the applications in Amazon allows managing the application security a breeze.

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Anudeep Palanki

Application Developer

Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees

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Yes it saved the time/effort for manually installing and set-up of Oracle DB.
It also saved efforts/time on patches, db back-up process.
Now easy to scale up the Oracle DB as service without any long process of procuring the additional hardware and set-up.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Amazon DynamoDB Editions & Modules

Edition

On-Demand - Write Operation	$1.25¹
On-Demand Read Operation	$0.25¹
On-Demand Data Stored	$0.25²
On-Demand Point-in-Time Recovery	$0.20²
On-Demand Snapshot	$0.10²
On-Demand Restoring a Backup	$0.15³
On-Demand Global Tables	$1.875⁴
On-Demand Streams	$0.02⁵
On-Demand Data Requests Outside AWS Regions	$0.09⁶
Provisioned - Write Operation	$0.00065⁷
Provisioned - Read Operation	$0.00013⁷
Provisioned - Data Stored	$0.25⁸
Provisioned - Point-in-Time Recovery	$0.20⁸
Provisioned - Snapshot	$0.10⁸
Provisioned - Restoring a Backup	$0.15⁹
Provisioned - Global Tables	$0.000975¹⁰
Provisioned - Streams	$0.02¹¹
Provisioned - Data Requests Outside AWS Regions	$0.09¹²

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per million write operations replicated
per 100,000 read operations
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per GB per month
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per 100,000 read operations
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General

Free Trial

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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Rating Summary

Amazon DynamoDB

Oracle Database Cloud Service

Amazon DynamoDB

Oracle Database Cloud Service

Amazon DynamoDB

Oracle Database Cloud Service

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon DynamoDB

Oracle Database Cloud Service

Feature Rating Comparison

Performance

Availability

Concurrency

Security

Scalability

Data model flexibility

Deployment model flexibility

Automatic software patching

Database scalability

Automated backups

Database security provisions

Monitoring and metrics

Automatic host deployment

Pros

Amazon DynamoDB

Oracle Database Cloud Service

Cons

Amazon DynamoDB

Oracle Database Cloud Service

Likelihood to Renew

Amazon DynamoDB

Oracle Database Cloud Service

Alternatives Considered

Amazon DynamoDB

Oracle Database Cloud Service

Return on Investment

Amazon DynamoDB

Oracle Database Cloud Service

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Amazon DynamoDB

Oracle Database Cloud Service

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Amazon DynamoDB Editions & Modules

Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Oracle Database Cloud Service Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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