Amazon DynamoDB vs. Astra DB

Amazon DynamoDB

Astra DB

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
Astra DB	Score8.2 out of 10	N/A	Astra DB from DataStax is a vector database for developers that need to get accurate Generative AI applications into production, fast.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon DynamoDB

Astra DB

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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Pricing Offerings
Amazon DynamoDB	Astra DB
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Amazon DynamoDB	Astra DB
Considered Both Products	Amazon AWS Abrar Dar Senior Web Developer in Information Technology at Edii (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon DynamoDB Performance at high scales is better and the cost at high scales is less. If one has a ton of data generated and has to work their way through it, I think Amazon DynamoDB should the go-to database. There are no compromises when it comes to performance at a huge scale. With any … Incentivized Helpful? Rohit Kumar Backend Developer in Information Technology at EDII (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Amazon DynamoDB The Amazon Web Services managed Amazon DynamoDB has excellent features which makes it stand out from all the others in market right now. The management ease it offers is far superior than its competitors and on top of that the on-demand pricing model is an advantage which works … Incentivized Helpful?	DataStax Verified User Chose Astra DB Astra DB has better compatibility with OpenSource Cassandra than Amazon DynamoDB. Incentivized Helpful? Amit Thakur Backend Developer in Information Technology at Edii (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Astra DB Astra DB is at par with each one of them as it's scalability and availability is unmatched. The best thing about Astra DB is it's managed service takes care of database operations, freeing up development teams to work on application features. With its scalable architecture and … Incentivized Helpful? Rohit Kumar Backend Developer in Information Technology at EDII (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Astra DB Since I was familiar with CQL, choosing Astra DB was the only smart choice for me. It is equally capable as all the other cloud-based fully managed database services currently out in the market. It provides very good documentation also for people who are new to it, making it … Incentivized Helpful? Emilio Figueroa Torres Chief Data Officer in Research & Development at Jooycar (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Astra DB Some advantages of Cassandra by itself over the other solutions is being masterless and column oriented. About Astra DB, for us the decision-making factor was having a serverless solution and with the latest Cassandra version and features, additionally it provides a rich set … Incentivized Helpful? Revital Kremer CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Research & Development at SupPlant (Computer Software, 51-200 employees) Chose Astra DB Incentivized Helpful? Rahul Singh Platform Architect at Anant Corporation (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Astra DB We know Astra is built on Cassandra / Kubernetes / Stargate and can work on any cloud. The competitors we reviewed are cloud specific and create a lock in. We also have the option to run Cassandra / Stargate ourselves if we wanted to. The competitors don’t give that option. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Astra DB We already used some NoSQL databases and of course Apache Cassandra itself. We wanted cloud based and globally distributed Apache Cassandra as DBaaS service. Managing IaaS for this role is expensive and cumbersome in terms of managing yourself. Free tier and pricing model of … Incentivized Helpful? Dominic Frazer-Imregh CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Social Media at Dominic Frazer Imregh (Entertainment, 11-50 employees) Chose Astra DB We liked the definitive structure to schema data types and the independence from tying ourselves to a specific cloud provider. We also preferred a solution that is not a blackbox and we have sone understanding of what is happening under the hood. Incentivized Helpful? Ilyas Bakirov CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Information Technology at BIM+ LAB (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) Chose Astra DB Free plan of AstaDB was convenient for us to start development without initial cost spending. Free features comparably to DynamoDB, CosmosDB and Scylla are richer and efficient to start development. Incentivized Helpful?
	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 DynamoDB

Astra DB

Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of Amazon DynamoDB and Astra DB
Feature	Amazon DynamoDB 9.2 69 Ratings	Astra DB - Ratings
Performance	9.368 Ratings	00 Ratings
Availability	9.569 Ratings	00 Ratings
Concurrency	9.067 Ratings	00 Ratings
Security	9.269 Ratings	00 Ratings
Scalability	9.468 Ratings	00 Ratings
Data model flexibility	8.266 Ratings	00 Ratings
Deployment model flexibility	10.023 Ratings	00 Ratings

Comparison of Vector Database features of Amazon DynamoDB and Astra DB
Feature	Amazon DynamoDB - Ratings	Astra DB 6.8 6 Ratings
Vector Data Connection	00 Ratings	8.16 Ratings
Vector Data Editing	00 Ratings	6.52 Ratings
Attribute Management	00 Ratings	9.13 Ratings
Geospatial Analysis	00 Ratings	6.41 Ratings
Geometric Transformations	00 Ratings	6.41 Ratings
Vector Data Visualization	00 Ratings	6.34 Ratings
Coordinate Reference System Management:	00 Ratings	5.52 Ratings
Data Import/Export	00 Ratings	6.35 Ratings
Symbolization and Styling	00 Ratings	6.41 Ratings
Data Sharing and Collaboration	00 Ratings	7.44 Ratings

User Ratings
	Amazon DynamoDB	Astra DB
Likelihood to Recommend	8.9 (79 ratings)	8.2 (40 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (34 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	9.1 (4 ratings)	7.8 (4 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (42 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	5.2 (4 ratings)	8.9 (4 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (42 ratings)	8.0 (38 ratings)

Amazon DynamoDB vs. Astra DB

Amazon DynamoDB

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