HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes
@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb, native support for Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers
Edge Functions
Support for Edge Functions
Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API
Runs over HTTPS protocol, compatible with Edge runtimes.Native multi-regional edge support. You can define regions for each table
Developer Experience
Database type
OLTP
OLTP
Data model
Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based
Document based, NoSQL
key-value, NoSQL
CLI
atlas
AWS CLI tools
Languages, APIs
The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication
All languages supporting MongoDB driver
Supported by majority of languages including Node.js, Python, Java, Go, C#, C++
Query language
Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,
Mongo-Query-Language (MQL)
PartiQL (JSON like syntax)
ACID compliant
ACID is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity despite errors, power failures, and other mishaps
ACID compliant, document level atomicity.
ACID compliant
Self-hosting
Support for self-hosted Database instance
Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB
Doesn't have support, Only for local development
Backups
Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters
Point-in-time recovery (PITR) provides continuous backups of your DynamoDB table data. When enabled, DynamoDB maintains incremental backups of your table for the last 35 days until you explicitly turn it off.
Security & Compliance Offerings
SOC2
Multi-factor authentication
Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication
Encryption
Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level
Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default
All your data in DynamoDB is encrypted in transit, HTTPS, TLS
SSO
Monitoring and analytics
Log retention
Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes
Atlas retains the last 30 days of log messages and system event audit messages for each tier in a cluster"
AWS CloudTrail for operation logs
Statistics
Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance
Web based monitoring tools
Amazon CloudWatch to monitor performance metrics
Scalability
Replication and Partitioning
By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load
