Amazon DynamoDB Alternatives

Apps similar to Amazon DynamoDB include PostgreSQL, which is free and open source. Other options are MongoDB, MariaDB, Redis and CouchDB. You're spoiled for choice with Relational Databases like Amazon DynamoDB: we list more than 50 alternatives for Linux, Mac, Windows, self-hosting and the web.

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  1. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    • PostgreSQL
    • Visual Studio Code
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  2. Filesystem-backed document DBMS in Rust where every record is a Git-versionable JSON file with automatic cryptographic integrity for compliance-critical systems.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Rust
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  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...

    86 Azure Cosmos DB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  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.

    102 CockroachDB alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Source Available

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  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...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  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

    Application type

    Platforms

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