🆚 Amazon DynamoDB vs. Memcached

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📈 Memcached is much more popular than Amazon DynamoDB.
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Amazon DynamoDB

Memcached

Type

Database technology

About

Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL, fully managed database service that supports key-value and document data models.

Memcached is an open-source event-based key-value store that keeps data in memory to deliver very low latency access and high throughput.

It can handle over 200,000 operations per second on fast hardware, uses multi-threading to leverage multiple CPU cores, and applies Least Recently Used cache eviction policy when it runs out of memory.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/

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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 capacityWrite Request Unit
(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
Data storage (monthly)Free tier ✔️First 25 GB
$0.25/GB

Provisioned capacityWrite Capacity Unit
(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
Data storage (monthly)Free tier ✔️First 25 GB
$0.25/GB

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