Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Cassandra

Amazon DynamoDB

Apache Cassandra

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon DynamoDB	Score8.5 out of 10	N/A	Amazon DynamoDB is a cloud-native, NoSQL, serverless database service.	$0 capacity unit per hour
Cassandra	Score9 out of 10	N/A	Cassandra is a no-SQL database from Apache.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon DynamoDB

Cassandra

Provisioned - Read Operation: $0.00013
capacity unit per hour
Provisioned - Write Operation: $0.00065
capacity unit per hour
Provisioned - Global Tables: $0.000975
per Read Capacity
On-Demand Streams: $0.02
per 100,000 read operations
Provisioned - Streams: $0.02
per 100,000 read operations
On-Demand Data Requests Outside AWS Regions: $0.09
per GB
Provisioned - Data Requests Outside AWS Regions: $0.09
per GB
On-Demand Snapshot: $0.10
per GB per month
Provisioned - Snapshot: $0.10
per GB per month
On-Demand Restoring a Backup: $0.15
per GB
Provisioned - Restoring a Backup: $0.15
per GB
On-Demand Point-in-Time Recovery: $0.20
per GB per month
Provisioned - Point-in-Time Recovery: $0.20
per GB per month
On-Demand Read Operation: $0.25
per million requests
On-Demand Data Stored: $0.25
per GB per month
Provisioned - Data Stored: $0.25
per GB per month
On-Demand - Write Operation: $1.25
per million requests
On-Demand Global Tables: $1.875
per million write operations replicated

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Amazon DynamoDB	Cassandra
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

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	Amazon DynamoDB	Cassandra
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Shireen Shahab Web Developer in Information Technology at EDII (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon DynamoDB AWS handles hardware provisioning, data recovery, fault tolerance, patching, and database upgrades for DynamoDB since it is a fully managed database service. Businesses can then concentrate on other aspects of their operations, including product development or customer service, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon DynamoDB DynamoDB's scalability is more automated and effortless, making it easier to handle rapid growth. Other tools require more manual configuration while DynamoDB simplifies database administration. Also, DynamoDB provides strong consistency while other tools like MongoDB and Apache… Incentivized Helpful? Adithya Kolluru Aws cloud engineer in Information Technology at Mindtee (Insurance, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon DynamoDB MongoDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB:• MongoDB requires more human management than DynamoDB, which is a fully managed service.• DynamoDB's scalability is automatic, whereas MongoDB's horizontal scaling may require more work.• When compared to DynamoDB, MongoDB offers more extensive data … Incentivized Helpful? Gunjan Shah Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Twilio (Internet, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Amazon DynamoDB Cassandra is expensive to manage Incentivized Helpful? Mohammad Aarif Software Engineer in Engineering at Infosys (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon DynamoDB high scalability #single-digit latency. #so much flexile. #very easy to use. # low maintenance.#GLobal Access Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon DynamoDB DynamoDB offers strong consistency, more fine-grained control over read and write capacities, and integrates seamlessly with other AWS services. DynamoDB is designed for horizontal scalability and high throughput, making it a better choice for applications with rapidly changing … Incentivized Helpful? Sulaiman Danish Web Developer in Information Technology at Edii (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon DynamoDB The automation is much more subtle and it performs way better for internet-scale applications. No matter the number of connections, the performance doesn't dip even a bit. Incentivized Helpful? Chaitanya Sanaka SDET in Information Technology at Microspark software solutions (Computer & Network Security, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon DynamoDB Performance, Scalability, durability , fully managed Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Malik Senior Team Lead in Information Technology at Wipro Limited (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Amazon DynamoDB Amazon DynamoDB is a blind pick if you are already using AWS services suite and your data is also present on the Amazon cloud. If you are not sure of the type of data that you are going to get or you know that is won't always be structured data, then it is also the right choice. Incentivized Helpful? Arjun Komath Software Engineer in Engineering at DIAGNAL (Online Media, 11-50 employees) Chose Amazon DynamoDB The main reason for sticking to DynamoDB is that its part of the AWS suite and since its a managed solution, so we do not have to worry about scalability and reliability. There are some advantages and disadvantages for using DynamoDB and the decision ultimately depends on your … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon DynamoDB I authored the below blog which covers this in a much better way: https://techblog.gumgum.com/articles/moving-to-amazon-dynamodb-from-hosted-cassandra Incentivized Helpful? Bob Smith Founder, Owner in Engineering at CodeLinguists LLC (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Amazon DynamoDB When you compare database systems it's easy to have an apples to apples comparison. However, when comparing two No-SQL systems it isn't as easy because they are built with different purposes in mind. DynamoDB has been easier to implement because it comes as a Service from … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon DynamoDB We ended up selecting DynamoDB compared to similar products simply because we host on AWS. To use any other NoSQL solution would require more work in the long run due to having to maintain the EC2 instance, manage updates to the operating system and whatever NoSQL system that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon DynamoDB While evaluating Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and DynamoDB we found Cassandra and DynamoDB being well suited for us. At the same time we didn't have the luxury of large team or devops so it came down to Amazon DynamoDB. As a small team we are glad to go forward with this … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Amazon DynamoDB DynamoDB is fully managed which is a great plus over MongoDB. The feature set is not as strong on MongoDB's for document databases, but it the managed aspect is highly compelling. Similarly for Cassandra, DynamoDB is managed. DynamoDB scales much better than CouchDB. Incentivized Helpful?	Apache David Prinzing Chief Technology Officer in Information Technology at Algorithmic Ads (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Cassandra Four years ago, I needed to choose a web-scale database. Having used relational databases for years (PostgreSQL is my favorite), I needed something that could perform well at scale with no downtime. I considered VoltDB for its in-memory speed, but it's limited in scale. I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cassandra DynamoDB is good and is also a truly global database as a service on AWS. However, if your organization is not using AWS, then Cassandra will provide a highly scalable and tuneable, consistent database. Cassandra is also fault-tolerant and good for replication across multiple … Incentivized Helpful? yixiang Shan IT Strategic Technical Advisor in Information Technology at FedEx Express (Package/Freight Delivery, 10,001+ employees) Chose Cassandra We evaluated MongoDB also, but don't like the single point failure possibility. The HBase coupled us too tightly to the Hadoop world while we prefer more technical flexibility. Also HBase is designed for "cold"/old historical data lake use cases and is not typically used for … Incentivized Helpful? Rekha Joshi Staff Software Engineer in Information Technology at Intuit (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Cassandra Apache Cassandra has the best of both worlds, it is a Java based NoSQL, linearly scalable, best in class tunable performance across different workloads, fault tolerant, distributed, masterless, time series database. We have used both Apache HBase and MongoDB for some use cases … Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

Amazon DynamoDB

Cassandra

Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of Amazon DynamoDB and Apache Cassandra
Feature	Amazon DynamoDB 9.2 69 Ratings	Apache Cassandra 8.0 5 Ratings
Performance	9.368 Ratings	8.55 Ratings
Availability	9.569 Ratings	8.85 Ratings
Concurrency	9.067 Ratings	7.65 Ratings
Security	9.269 Ratings	8.05 Ratings
Scalability	9.468 Ratings	9.55 Ratings
Data model flexibility	8.266 Ratings	6.75 Ratings
Deployment model flexibility	10.023 Ratings	7.05 Ratings

User Ratings
	Amazon DynamoDB	Cassandra
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (79 ratings)	6.0 (16 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (34 ratings)	8.6 (16 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (4 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (42 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	5.2 (4 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (42 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache Cassandra

Amazon DynamoDB

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