🆚 Amazon DynamoDB vs. Cassandra
- 📈 Amazon DynamoDB is slightly more popular than Cassandra.
- 🌎 Amazon DynamoDB is more popular in the United States, Argentina, and Chile.
- 🌍 Cassandra is more popular in Switzerland, Australia, and Germany.
Statistics based on 3.7M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Database
Database
About
Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, fully managed NoSQL database service that supports key-value and document data models for applications requiring predictable low-latency performance at any scale.
It provides automatic scaling, single-digit millisecond response times, global tables for multi-region replication, secondary indexes, ACID transactions, and in-memory acceleration through DynamoDB Accelerator.
Apache Cassandra is an open-source, highly scalable, distributed NoSQL database.
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington, United States
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Pricing
Free tier ✔️ 12 Months Free: 25 GB of data storage + 2.5 million stream read requests + 1 GB of data transfer out
On-Demand capacity
Write Request Unit
(1 unit for each write/2 units for transactional write) $0.625/million
(1 unit for each write/2 units for transactional write) $0.625/million
Read Request Unit
(1 unit for each strongly consistent read/2 units for transactional read) $0.125/million
(1 unit for each strongly consistent read/2 units for transactional read) $0.125/million
Data storage (monthly)
Free tier ✔️ First 25 GB
$0.25/GB
Provisioned capacity
Write Capacity Unit
(1 unit for each write per second/2 units for each transactional write per second) $0.00065
(1 unit for each write per second/2 units for each transactional write per second) $0.00065
Read Capacity Unit
(1 unit for each strongly consistent read per second, 2 units for transactional read per second) $0.00013
(1 unit for each strongly consistent read per second, 2 units for transactional read per second) $0.00013
Data storage (monthly)
Free tier ✔️ First 25 GB
$0.25/GB
Free ✔️ Open source
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Amazon DynamoDB database is 1.1 times more popular than Cassandra.
Total websites
Market share
Databases
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Amazon DynamoDB is more popular in the United States, Argentina, and Chile, while Cassandra is more popular in Switzerland, Australia, and Germany.
United States
Switzerland
Argentina
Chile
Uruguay
Japan
Australia
Germany
Austria
India
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Amazon DynamoDB is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and entertainment, while Cassandra is more commonly used on auctions and classifieds, Internet services, and finance and banking sites.
Auctions/Classifieds
Online Shopping
Business
Internet Services
Entertainment
Finance/Banking
Travel
Streaming Media
Software/Hardware
Games
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,717,657 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.
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