Amazon DynamoDB Reviews & Ratings 2024

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Overview

What is Amazon DynamoDB?

Amazon DynamoDB is a cloud-native, NoSQL, serverless database service.

Recent Reviews

DynamoDB is a great NoSQL storage solution

9 out of 10

February 04, 2024

Incentivized

We use Amazon DynamoDB as a scalable solution for NoSQL related storage of data. It can take some getting used to how to work the primary …

If you need quick noSQL for serverless applications, DynamoDB is a good option to consider

9 out of 10

November 14, 2023

We use DynamoDB for our low-latency data access for internal web-apps that require quick real-time information. It’s quite flexible for …

Scalable and flexible datastore

8 out of 10

October 14, 2023

Incentivized

We use Amazon DynamoDB for serverless application to store data and pull it based on user requests. The app has authentication and there …

DynamoDB is a serverless, fully managed and NOSQL database.

10 out of 10

October 12, 2023

Incentivized

The most beneficial aspect of Amazon DynamoDB is that it is completely managed by AWS. The developers should concentrate solely on the …

Best NoSQL Database Tool

8 out of 10

October 06, 2023

Incentivized

We were building Amazon Alexa Game in which we used the DynamoDB for storing the user's data and leaderboard. Integration of Amazon …

Extremely Scalable - Full Marks for scalability

8 out of 10

October 06, 2023

Incentivized

We are a fashion ecommerce company.
We have thousands and thousands of products in our inventory, with the use of Amazon DynamoDb it is …

Amazing self-managing DB.

9 out of 10

October 03, 2023

Incentivized

From storing huge amounts of data generated by our applications to caching our data in order to increase the performance of our …

Streamlined Webhook Configuration with DynamoDB

10 out of 10

October 03, 2023

Incentivized

We were using DynamoDB for storing the configuration of our webhook solution. Each integration had multiple configuration options, such as …

Unlocking Efficiency and Scalability: Exploring the Benefits of Amazon DynamoDB

9 out of 10

October 02, 2023

Incentivized

We have high volume of data approximately 5million coming from legacy system through message queue. Those records were landed to …

Amazon DynamoDB fast, flexible NoSQL database service

9 out of 10

October 02, 2023

Incentivized

We use Amazon DynamoDB as one of the data base components of our complex environment. It was mainly use in conjunction with AWS Lambda …

Best in business!

8 out of 10

October 02, 2023

Incentivized

It is a boon for availability and scalability issues. Works like magic and is very secure. It handles high-traffic i.e. thousands of …

For a fast, reliable, and dynamic database schema needs, DynamoDB is your solution!

8 out of 10

September 29, 2023

Incentivized

We needed a cloud based serverless database backend resource for an in house product we were developing. Security requirements along with …

Best NoSQL database tool!

10 out of 10

September 28, 2023

Incentivized

Amazon DynamoDB is a best in industry product for NoSQL, it providing rapid solution for our database requirement with fast performance …

"very high efficient and scalable RDS database i.e. Amazon DynamoDB"

10 out of 10

September 28, 2023

Incentivized

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers the managed NoSQL database solution known as Amazon DynamoDB.It is a database service provided by AWS. …

A perfect cloud DB

9 out of 10

September 28, 2023

Incentivized

Our integration and Data-analytics platform uses AWS services and Amazon DynamoDB is one of the key service. All our data storage are …

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Popular Features

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Availability (70)
9.4
94%
Scalability (69)
9.4
94%
Performance (69)
9.2
92%
Security (70)
9.0
90%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Scalable data storage
Not as flexible as something like Firebase

Richard Rout

Software Developer

FACT0RY (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)

It’s surprisingly transactional and support streams processing
It’s not cheap at all. You must be careful with billing

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Insurance Company, 1-10 employees

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Pricing

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Provisioned - Read Operation

$0.00013

Cloud

capacity unit per hour

Provisioned - Write Operation

$0.00065

Cloud

capacity unit per hour

Provisioned - Global Tables

$0.000975

Cloud

per Read Capacity

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/pricing…

Offerings

Free Trial
Free/Freemium Version
Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

NoSQL Databases

NoSQL databases are designed to be used across large distrusted systems. They are notably much more scalable and much faster and handling very large data loads than traditional relational databases.

9.2

Avg 8.8

9.2
Performance
(69) Ratings
How fast the database performs under data load
9.4
Availability
(70) Ratings
Availability is the probability that the NoSQL database will be available to preform its function when called upon.
8.8
Concurrency
(68) Ratings
Concurrency is the ability for multiple processes to access or change shared data simultaneously. The greater the number of concurrent user processes that can execute without blocking each other, the greater the concurrency of the database system.
9
Security
(70) Ratings
Security features include authentication against external security mechanisms liker LDAP, Windows Active Directory, and authorization or privilege management. Some NoSQL databases also support encryption.
9.4
Scalability
(69) Ratings
NoSQL databases are inherently more stable than relational databases and have built-in support for replication and partitioning of data to support scalability.
8.6
Data model flexibility
(67) Ratings
NoSQL databases do not rely on rely on tables, columns, rows, or schemas to organize and retrieve data, but use use more flexible data models to accommodate the large volume and variety of data being generated by modern applications.
10
Deployment model flexibility
(23) Ratings
Can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud.

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What is Amazon DynamoDB?

Amazon DynamoDB is a NoSQL, fully managed, serverless database boasting limitless scalability and single-digit millisecond latency performance enabling customers to develop modern, microservice-based applications through a simple API. DynamoDB’s fully-managed service includes broad compliance standards, security integration with AWS Identity and Access Management and numerous disaster recovery services. With DynamoDB Global Tables, customers are offered a 99.999% highly available, multi-Region, multi-active database supporting local reads and writes for globally distributed users. DynamoDB provides cost management features such as scale-to-zero, Time to Live (TTL) for aging data out, and multiple pricing models including a free tier.

Amazon DynamoDB Features

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NoSQL Databases Features

Supported: Performance
Supported: Availability
Supported: Concurrency
Supported: Security
Supported: Scalability
Supported: Data model flexibility

Additional Features

Supported: Amazon DynamoDB is serverless allowing customers to scale instantly as workloads increase while providing an on-demand billing mode where they only pay for the resources consumed.
Supported: Amazon DynamoDB provides up to a 99.999% SLA with zero downtime or maintenance windows.

Amazon DynamoDB Screenshots

Screenshot of Amazon DynamoDB in the AWS Console

Amazon DynamoDB Videos

AWS re:Invent 2019: Data modeling with Amazon DynamoDB (CMY304)

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Amazon DynamoDB Technical Details

Deployment Types	Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	No
Supported Countries	Global, North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia
Supported Languages	English, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, French, Mandarin Chinese

Frequently Asked Questions

Amazon DynamoDB is a cloud-native, NoSQL, serverless database service.

MongoDB Atlas, Redis™*, and Azure Cosmos DB are common alternatives for Amazon DynamoDB.

Reviewers rate Deployment model flexibility highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Amazon DynamoDB are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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Score 9 out of 10

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this for implementation of websites and web applications to manage the daily updates and all

Pros and Cons

Mostly we use this for Auto scaling
In memory caching
Restore options for all their internet scale applications
Key value NoSQL database

Limited index options
Lack of transactions
Cost optimization
Data consistency models

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon DynamoDB is designed to handle massive workloads and can scale horizontally to accommodate millions of requests per second.DynamoDB can efficiently handle write-heavy workloads, making it suitable for applications that require processing and storing real-time streaming data, such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices, clickstream analysis, or financial market data.

Amazon DynamoDB Feature Ratings

NoSQL Databases (6)

91.66666666666666%

9.2

Performance: 80%
8.0
Availability: 100%
10.0
Concurrency: 90%
9.0
Security: 80%
8.0
Scalability: 100%
10.0
Data model flexibility: 100%
10.0

Return on Investment

Usage based pricing
Durability and availability
Scalability and performance

Google Cloud Datastore, Apache Cassandra and MongoDB

Performance, Scalability, durability , fully managed

Content generation
Research and data analysis
Content editing

Innovative Uses

Real time analytics
Internet of things
User session management

Future Planned Uses

Real time analytics
Personalisation and recommendation systems
Internet of things

Cloud Solutions
Scalability
Integration with Other Systems

Scalability refers to the ability to handle increasing amounts of data and growing workloads efficiently and effectively

Provisioned - Read Operation

$0.00013

Provisioned - Write Operation

$0.00065

Provisioned - Global Tables

$0.000975

MongoDB

Redis™*

Azure Cosmos DB

MySQL

Google Cloud Datastore

Elasticsearch

Microsoft SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Couchbase Server

IBM Cloudant

Cassandra

HBase

CouchDB