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Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon DynamoDB
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.
Software Developer
Globalsoft SolutionsComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Scylla
Scylla is well suited for high-throughput scenarios where keyed data must be read or written with consistently low latency. It's less appropriate for use cases requiring relational queries, secondary indexes, or more structured data sets.
CTO, Co-founder
PersosaComputer Software, 1-10 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
NoSQL Databases
Amazon DynamoDB
8.5
Scylla
8.4
Performance
Amazon DynamoDB
8.7
Scylla
9.1
Availability
Amazon DynamoDB
9.3
Scylla
9.1
Concurrency
Amazon DynamoDB
8.7
Scylla
9.1
Security
Amazon DynamoDB
9.0
Scylla
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Scalability
Amazon DynamoDB
8.9
Scylla
—
Data model flexibility
Amazon DynamoDB
7.0
Scylla
6.4
Deployment model flexibility
Amazon DynamoDB
8.1
Scylla
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Pros
Amazon DynamoDB
- 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.
Founder, Owner
CodeLinguists LLCComputer Software, 1-10 employees
Scylla
- Low-latency reads
- CQL has a familiar syntax
- Parity with Cassandra
- Practical features
CTO, Co-founder
PersosaComputer Software, 1-10 employees
Cons
Amazon DynamoDB
- 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).
VP of Technology
NewstexComputer Software, 1-10 employees
Scylla
- Better documentation for best practices (e.g., how to effectively use connection pooling)
CTO, Co-founder
PersosaComputer Software, 1-10 employees
Likelihood to Renew
Amazon DynamoDB
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.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Research Company, 11-50 employeesScylla
No score
No answers yet
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Usability
Amazon DynamoDB
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Scylla
Scylla 8.2
Based on 1 answer
Very easy-to-understand syntax--uses CQL (same as Cassandra), which has many similarities to standard SQL. There are some gotchas, however, that must be known during schema development.
CTO, Co-founder
PersosaComputer Software, 1-10 employees
Support Rating
Amazon DynamoDB
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Scylla
Scylla 9.1
Based on 1 answer
The Scylla cloud support team is incredibly responsive and proactive.
CTO, Co-founder
PersosaComputer Software, 1-10 employees
Alternatives Considered
Amazon DynamoDB
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.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employeesScylla
CTO, Co-founder
PersosaComputer Software, 1-10 employees
Return on Investment
Amazon DynamoDB
- 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.
Application Developer
Monsanto CompanyFarming, 10,001+ employees
Scylla
- Addresses latency requirements of our platform
CTO, Co-founder
PersosaComputer Software, 1-10 employees
Screenshots
Amazon DynamoDB
Scylla
—Pricing Details
Amazon DynamoDB
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Amazon DynamoDB Editions & Modules
Edition
On-Demand - Write Operation | $1.251 |
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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
Additional Pricing Details
—Scylla
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Scylla Editions & Modules
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