Question: What are the best alternatives to DynamoDB?
Answered by Rafal Wilinski
Answer
There are several alternatives to Amazon DynamoDB, including:
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MongoDB: An open-source, document-oriented database often used as a NoSQL alternative to relational databases like MySQL.
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Cassandra: An open-source, distributed NoSQL database designed to handle large amounts of data across many commodity servers.
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Redis: An open-source, in-memory data structure store that can be used as a database, cache, and message broker.
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Azure Cosmos DB: Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model database service offers turnkey global distribution with guaranteed low latency, high availability, and consistency.
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Google Cloud Datastore: A highly-scalable NoSQL document database for applications.
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Google Bigtable: A NoSQL Big Data database service from Google.
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Firebase Realtime Database: A cloud-hosted database that supports real-time data syncing across all connected clients.
These are just a few of the many alternatives available, and the best option for you will depend on your specific use case and requirements.
Other Common DynamoDB FAQ (with Answers)
- How to enable DynamoDB monitoring?
- Does Amazon DynamoDB store healthcare data?
- What is DynamoDB used for?
- Does DynamoDB support nesting data?
- How to connect to DynamoDB?
- Does DynamoDB support cross-region replication?
- Does DynamoDB support read replicas?
- Is DynamoDB the same as Redshift?
- What does the DynamoDB query return?
- Does DynamoDB support Multi-AZ?
- How is data stored in DynamoDB?
- What are the key differences between DynamoDB and Neo4j?
- Can I add DynamoDB to my full-stack application?
- Can Tableau connect to DynamoDB?
- Are DynamoDB table names supposed to be unique?