Amazon DynamoDB Alternatives

Amazon DynamoDB is described as 'Fully managed NoSQL database service offered by Amazon.com as part of the Amazon Web Services portfolio. It was announced by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on January 18, 2012.OverviewDynamoDB differs from other Amazon services by allowing developers to purchase a' and is an app in the business & commerce category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Amazon DynamoDB for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Self-Hosted and Web-based apps. The best Amazon DynamoDB alternative is PostgreSQL, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Amazon DynamoDB are MongoDB, MariaDB, Redis and CouchDB.

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  1. Filesystem-backed document DBMS in Rust where every record is a Git-versionable JSON file with automatic cryptographic integrity for compliance-critical systems.

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    • Rust
     
  2. DocumentDB icon
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    Open-source document database integrating NoSQL flexibility with PostgreSQL reliability, offering CRUD operations on BSON, full-text and geospatial search, vector embeddings, and schema-less data modeling for complex, cloud-ready workloads supporting MongoDB use cases.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • PostgreSQL
    • Visual Studio Code
     
  3. Azure Cosmos DB is a NoSQL document database service designed from the ground up to natively support JSON and JavaScript directly inside the database engine. It’s the right solution for web and mobile applications when predictable throughput, low latency, and flexible query are...

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  4. CockroachDB icon
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    Cockroach is a distributed key/value datastore which supports ACID transactional semantics and versioned values as first-class features. The primary design goal is global consistency and survivability, hence the name.

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    • Free
    • Source Available

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    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. FerretDB icon
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    FerretDB (formerly MangoDB) is an open-source proxy, which converts MongoDB wire protocol queries to SQL, and uses PostgreSQL as a database engine.

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. YDB icon
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    YDB is an open source Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions.

    60 YDB alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  7. Couchbase icon
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    Couchbase is the NoSQL database market share leader, with production deployments at AOL, Deutsche Post, NTT Docomo, Salesforce.com, Turner Broadcasting Systems, Zynga and hundreds of other organizations worldwide.

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
  8. ScyllaDB icon
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    is an open-source distributed NoSQL wide-column data store. It is compatible with Apache Cassandra and supports the same protocols (CQL and Thrift) and file formats (SSTable), as well as the Amazon DynamoDB API, and is based on C++20.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    API-compatible, 50% of the cost, no throttling, no item size limit, can deploy on-prem or on any cloud

    • ScyllaDB is Free and Open SourceAmazon DynamoDB is Freemium and Proprietary
  9. Bigtable is a fully managed wide-column and key-value NoSQL database service for large analytical and operational workloads as part of the Google Cloud Platform portfolio.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  10. Firestore icon
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    Firestore is a NoSQL document database built for automatic scaling, high performance, and ease of application development. While the Firestore interface has many of the same features as traditional databases, as a NoSQL database it differs from them in the way it describes...

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  11. KeyDB icon
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    KeyDB is fast NoSQL database with full compatibility for Redis APIs, clients, and modules.

    45 KeyDB alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. Amazon Redshift uses SQL to analyze structured and semi-structured data across data warehouses, operational databases, and data lakes, using AWS-designed hardware and machine learning to deliver the best price performance at any scale.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
     
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