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 create an index in DynamoDB? (how to create an index in dynamodb)
- How to tell if DynamoDB initialized correctly?
- Does sharding affect DynamoDB reads?
- How to store Japanese characters in DynamoDB?
- How to dump multiple DynamoDB tables?
- How to divert the traffic from S3 to DynamoDB?
- How to store graphs in DynamoDB?
- How to grab data from AWS DynamoDB?
- How to track changes to items in DynamoDB?
- What is the access pattern in DynamoDB?
- Will I be charged for DynamoDB is it is inactive?
- How does DynamoDB handle data changes?
- How do you store JSON on DynamoDB?
- How to access DynamoDB from Apache Hive?
- How many DynamoDB tables can I have at a maximum?