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 is data stored in DynamoDB?
- Is DynamoDB a wide-column store?
- Can DynamoDB trigger AWS Step Functions?
- Is DynamoDB OLTP or OLAP?
- What are the differences between DynamoDB and Snowflake?
- What are the differences between DynamoDB and Google BigTable?
- How to store Japanese characters in DynamoDB?
- Can DynamoDB have null values?
- Is DynamoDB a memory store?
- Can firehose write to DynamoDB?
- How to access DynamoDB from outside?
- Can colons and special characters be used in DynamoDB attributes?
- Is DynamoDB a relational database?
- Can DynamoDB store documents?
- How to access DynamoDB from EC2?