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"The solution is very simple to use.""Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten. I've never faced any problems.""The possibility of managing documents is the most valuable aspect of the solution. I like the fact that I don't have to define the fields.""Its scalability is really good. I can go up to a petabyte of data. It is more of an on-demand use case. I can go from 100 MB to 1 PB if I want, which is very good. Most of the other databases would want you to stick to a specific data allocation. Its subscription cost is lower than similar databases offered by other vendors.""The platform is easy to develop and configure.""Amazon DynamoDB is powerful and fast. Its performance is good.""DynamoDB is a key-value database, and it's valuable if you have simple scan queries and don't need to do point searches.""It has helped us build our product from zero point to the end."

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"Relational databases are never good at identifying patterns in graphs or other similar relationships, whereas Amazon Neptune is."

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"Amazon DynamoDB has a very complex configuration if you go very advanced.""The solution's efficiency and performance should be faster than other databases.""If you have no prior experience with this type of non-relational database, the syntaxes, implementation, or understanding may be difficult.""The solution's backup and restore could be improved to be able to utilize batch operations.""Querying data on the solution is quite limited, but this is like any other NoSQL database. It's the most common criticism of the NoSQL database in general.""There are some issues like if we missed something or somehow were not able to store the data, then it was quite difficult for us to get back that data.""The documentation is not good enough.""Currently, there is no option for a scheduled refresh in this solution. We want the data to be populated into DynamoDB on a timely basis. Currently, you have to go to the DynamoDB table and hit the refresh button to populate it with the new data. If you have connected DynamoDB to a BI application for creating visualizations with charts, graphs, or other things, you would want it to get updated as per the schedule so that you have updated visualizations in your BI application."

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"Amazon Neptune could improve by spreading more awareness for others to have an understanding of the solution because the technology is fairly new. The developer community and larger community do not understand it yet."

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  • "Its subscription cost is lower than similar databases offered by other vendors."
  • "You can get committed capacity or transaction-based pricing. If you're doing it on demand, they charge based on whether you're reading or writing. They charge $1.25 for every million rights to the database and 25 cents for every million reads from the database. The first 25 gigabytes of storage are free, and they charge 25 cents a gigabyte a month. So, it's a very different world. It's a quarter a gigabyte a month. You can store a lot of data. They have a separate fee for automated backup, and if you want it globally distributed, where it's distributed around the world, there's a slightly different price."
  • "I would rate the pricing for this solution a four out of five."
  • "It is a little expensive."
  • "On a scale of one to ten, where one is a high price and ten is a low price, I rate the pricing a seven. It is not the cheapest, but it is not the costliest either."
  • "Amazon DynamoDB is cheap."
  • "Compared to a high-end relational database, it's cheap."
  • "For our use case usage, DynamoDB's pricing was okay. However, for high-traffic applications, the pricing structure becomes less attractive."
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  • "Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS are on par for pricing and Google has been raising its prices."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed service by AWS, and it is designed to provide fast and predictable performance.
    Top Answer:The solution's backup and restore could be improved to be able to utilize batch operations.
    Top Answer:DynamoDB is suitable for a wide range of applications, from small-scale projects to large-scale and high-traffic applications. Amazon DynamoDB is a high-performance managed service, and AWS fully… more »
    Top Answer:Relational databases are never good at identifying patterns in graphs or other similar relationships, whereas Amazon Neptune is.
    Top Answer:Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS are on par for pricing and Google has been raising its prices.
    Top Answer:Amazon Neptune could improve by spreading more awareness for others to have an understanding of the solution because the technology is fairly new. The developer community and larger community do not… more »
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    Overview

    Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. You can use Amazon DynamoDB to create a database table that can store and retrieve any amount of data, and serve any level of request traffic. Amazon DynamoDB automatically spreads the data and traffic for the table over a sufficient number of servers to handle the request capacity specified by the customer and the amount of data stored, while maintaining consistent and fast performance.

    Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets. The core of Amazon Neptune is a purpose-built, high-performance graph database engine optimized for storing billions of relationships and querying the graph with milliseconds latency. Amazon Neptune supports popular graph models Property Graph and W3C's RDF, and their respective query languages Apache TinkerPop Gremlin and SPARQL, allowing you to easily build queries that efficiently navigate highly connected datasets. Neptune powers graph use cases such as recommendation engines, fraud detection, knowledge graphs, drug discovery, and network security.

    Amazon Neptune is highly available, with read replicas, point-in-time recovery, continuous backup to Amazon S3, and replication across Availability Zones. Neptune is secure with support for HTTPS encrypted client connections and encryption at rest. Neptune is fully managed, so you no longer need to worry about database management tasks such as hardware provisioning, software patching, setup, configuration, or backups.

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    Samsung, Snapchat, Capital One, Expedia, Tinder, Airbnb, Comcast, Lyft, Redfin, Netflix, Adobe
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    Comms Service Provider30%
    Computer Software Company20%
    Healthcare Company10%
    University10%
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    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Comms Service Provider6%
    Manufacturing Company6%
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    Financial Services Firm16%
    Computer Software Company15%
    Manufacturing Company10%
    Government6%
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    Small Business54%
    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise43%
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    Large Enterprise65%
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    Large Enterprise70%
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    Amazon DynamoDB is ranked 2nd in Managed NoSQL Databases with 24 reviews while Amazon Neptune is ranked 4th in Managed NoSQL Databases. Amazon DynamoDB is rated 8.4, while Amazon Neptune is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Amazon DynamoDB writes "A 10/10 solution with effective transaction-based pricing and stable millisecond response time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon Neptune writes "Useful pattern identification, price well, and straightforward implementation". Amazon DynamoDB is most compared with Amazon DocumentDB, Google Cloud Bigtable, Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB, Amazon Timestream and Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud, whereas Amazon Neptune is most compared with Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB, Neo4j AuraDB, Amazon Timestream and Amazon DocumentDB.

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