DynamoDB

DynamoDB

FeatureDynamoDB

Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

AWS infrastructure

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb, native support for Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers

Edge Functions

Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance.

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

Data model

Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based

key-value, NoSQL

CLI

Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line.

AWS CLI tools

Languages, APIs

The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication

Supported by majority of languages including Node.js, Python, Java, Go, C#, C++

Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

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

Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance
Doesn't have support, Only for local development

Backups

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

Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data.

Multi-factor authentication

Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication

Encryption

Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level

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

AWS CloudTrail for operation logs

Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance

Amazon CloudWatch to monitor performance metrics

Scalability

Replication and Partitioning

"Global tables", Multi-region replication