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Amazon DynamoDB vs. Apache CouchDB

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon DynamoDB

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AAmazon DynamoDB is a cloud-native, NoSQL, serverless database service.

    $0

    capacity unit per hour

    CouchDB

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AApache CouchDB is an HTTP + JSON document database with Map Reduce views and bi-directional replication. The Couch Replication Protocol is implemented in a variety of projects and products that span computing environments from globally distributed server-clusters, over mobile phones to web browsers.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon DynamoDBCouchDB
    Editions & Modules
    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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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon DynamoDBCouchDB
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon DynamoDBCouchDB
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    Chose Amazon DynamoDB
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    Incentivized
    Chose Amazon DynamoDB
    Main advantage of DynamoDB is Amazon's offering as SaaS. This removes the need for managing the database. DynamoDB is well suited for querying simple and flat JSON objects.

    Compared to PostgresSQL, I would pick Postgres over Dynamo considering that Postgres is very mature and …
    Incentivized
    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
    Apache
    Chose CouchDB
    Open Source, and freely able to install it on any OS you desire (the big 3, anyways) CouchDB was selected for that, it's early-adoption of JSON and its mobile-friendly environment. Also, I have used it off and on in various non-professional projects, and it was really one of …
    Incentivized
    Chose CouchDB
    Compared to MongoDB, CouchDB's Map-Reduce paradigm poses a steeper learning curve for SQL users. However, CouchDB's master-master replication is an advantage of implementing a load-balanced solution.
    Even though, currently, CouchDB has strong community support, as an open …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon DynamoDBCouchDB
    NoSQL Databases
    Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of Amazon DynamoDB and Apache CouchDB
    Feature
    Amazon DynamoDB
    9.2
    69 Ratings
    Apache CouchDB
    7.9
    2 Ratings
    Performance9.368 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Availability9.569 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Concurrency9.067 Ratings8.52 Ratings
    Security9.269 Ratings6.02 Ratings
    Scalability9.468 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Data model flexibility8.266 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility10.023 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Amazon DynamoDBCouchDB
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (79 ratings)
    9.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (34 ratings)
    9.0
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (42 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.2
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (42 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)