Amazon DynamoDB vs Percona Server for MongoDB

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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It offers good support for the implementation of solutions in the public and on-premises cloud and integration with other services such as Hashicorp Vault for data encryption. One of the main advantages is the ease of configuration, in addition to offering transaction support for the different operations and scalability of the servers.

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Jose Manuel Ortega

Software Engineer && Security researcher

UA - Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'AlacantComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Amazon DynamoDB

Percona Server for MongoDB

Performance

Availability

Concurrency

Security

Scalability

Data model flexibility

Deployment model flexibility

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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High performance
Integration with other tools and services
Big data projects oriented
High availability and scalability

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Jose Manuel Ortega

Software Engineer && Security researcher

UA - Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'AlacantComputer 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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The learning curve makes it a bit tricky to use at first.
Documentation is an aspect to improve, especially for people who are just starting out.
At the interface level, the user experience could be improved.

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Jose Manuel Ortega

Software Engineer && Security researcher

UA - Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'AlacantComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Amazon DynamoDB 8.7

Based on 34 answers

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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No score

No answers yet

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Usability

No score

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Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0

Based on 1 answer

One aspect to improve is the user experience since sometimes the steps to take are not clear and the user may need to review some of the actions before continuing with the next ones. Another aspect to improve is the documentation and support for developers who want to know the tool.

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Jose Manuel Ortega

Software Engineer && Security researcher

UA - Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'AlacantComputer Software, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Percona Server for MongoDB 8.0

Based on 1 answer

It offers good support for the implementation of solutions in the public and on-premises cloud and integration with other services such as Hashicorp Vault for data encryption. Also, it offers support for different compatible programming languages such as C, C ++, Java, as well as offering good support for the persistence of schema-free data and the possibility of saving data in memory.

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Jose Manuel Ortega

Software Engineer && Security researcher

UA - Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'AlacantComputer Software, 51-200 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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At the performance level, it is similar to other solutions such as MongoDB and Percona Server for MySQL. and at the customization level, it offers better support for the development of specific solutions that seek good performance in transactions.

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Jose Manuel Ortega

Software Engineer && Security researcher

UA - Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'AlacantComputer Software, 51-200 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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It offers a good alternative solution compared with other open source databases.
We have many resources at the documentation level and other tools that help the integration with different programming languages.

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Jose Manuel Ortega

Software Engineer && Security researcher

UA - Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'AlacantComputer Software, 51-200 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

per million requests
per GB per month
per GB
per million write operations replicated
per 100,000 read operations
per GB
capacity unit per hour
per GB per month
per GB
per Read Capacity
per 100,000 read operations
per GB

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

Percona Server for MongoDB Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

Free and open-source

Rating Summary

Amazon DynamoDB

Percona Server for MongoDB

Amazon DynamoDB

Percona Server for MongoDB

Amazon DynamoDB

Percona Server for MongoDB

Amazon DynamoDB

Percona Server for MongoDB

Amazon DynamoDB

Percona Server for MongoDB

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon DynamoDB

Percona Server for MongoDB

Feature Rating Comparison

Performance

Availability

Concurrency

Security

Scalability

Data model flexibility

Deployment model flexibility

Pros

Amazon DynamoDB

Percona Server for MongoDB

Cons

Amazon DynamoDB

Percona Server for MongoDB

Likelihood to Renew

Amazon DynamoDB

Percona Server for MongoDB

Usability

Amazon DynamoDB

Percona Server for MongoDB

Support Rating

Amazon DynamoDB

Percona Server for MongoDB

Alternatives Considered

Amazon DynamoDB

Percona Server for MongoDB

Return on Investment

Amazon DynamoDB

Percona Server for MongoDB

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Amazon DynamoDB

Percona Server for MongoDB

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?

Percona Server for MongoDB Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

Rating Summary

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