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Amazon DynamoDB vs Scylla

Amazon DynamoDB
Top Rated
102 Ratings
Scylla
5 Ratings

Amazon DynamoDB

Top Rated
102 Ratings
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Score 8.5 out of 100

Based on 102 reviews and ratings

Scylla

5 Ratings
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Score 9.2 out of 100

Based on 5 reviews and ratings

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.

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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.

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Kirk Morales | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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.

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Bob Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Scylla

  • Low-latency reads
  • CQL has a familiar syntax
  • Parity with Cassandra
  • Practical features

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Kirk Morales | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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).

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Chris Moyer | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Scylla

  • Better documentation for best practices (e.g., how to effectively use connection pooling)

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Kirk Morales | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kirk Morales
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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.

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Scylla

No score
No answers yet
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Usability

Amazon DynamoDB

No score
No answers yet
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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.

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Kirk Morales | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Support Rating

Amazon DynamoDB

No score
No answers yet
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Scylla

Scylla 9.1
Based on 1 answer
The Scylla cloud support team is incredibly responsive and proactive.

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Kirk Morales | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kirk Morales
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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.

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Scylla

Scylla has a quick learning curve (same as Cassandra) compared to other proprietary solutions like BigTable. It supports higher throughput and lower latency that other NoSQL databases like MongoDB, which sacrifice those features for more flexibility and unique features.

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Kirk Morales | TrustRadius Reviewer
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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.

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Anudeep Palanki | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Scylla

  • Addresses latency requirements of our platform

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Kirk Morales | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kirk Morales
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Screenshots

Scylla

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Pricing Details

Amazon DynamoDB

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
  1. per million requests
  2. per GB per month
  3. per GB
  4. per million write operations replicated
  5. per 100,000 read operations
  6. per GB
  7. capacity unit per hour
  8. per GB per month
  9. per GB
  10. per Read Capacity
  11. per 100,000 read operations
  12. per GB
Additional Pricing Details
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Scylla

General

Free Trial
—
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Scylla Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details
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Rating Summary

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon DynamoDB
8.8
Scylla
9.1

Likelihood to Renew

Amazon DynamoDB
8.7
Scylla
—

Usability

Amazon DynamoDB
—
Scylla
8.2

Support Rating

Amazon DynamoDB
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Scylla
9.1

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