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Add to SafariWhen comparing Amazon DynamoDB vs F(x) Data Cloud, the Slant community recommends F(x) Data Cloud for most people. In the question“What are the best NoSQL Database as a Service providers for storing large amounts of data?” F(x) Data Cloud is ranked 1st while Amazon DynamoDB is ranked 2nd. The most important reason people chose F(x) Data Cloud is:
If you wanna host your database on the cloud server, you can have both the option as Database as a Service (Pre-installed and managed database) or Infrastructure as a Service (If you want to have root access and manually want to install the database).
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Pros
Pro Easy integration with other Amazon services
Since it's part of AWS, like with other services that Amazon provides, it's very easy to integrate DynamoDB with any other AWS service that you may be using.
Pro High uptime
Data hosted on DynamoDB is automatically replicated across multiple AWS availability zones, this way the data is protected from any malfunction that may cause loss and it also ensures high uptime.
Pro Trigger tasks (AWS Lambda) on write
When a new record is written, it can trigger one or many AWS Lambda functions. With Lambda functions in Java, JavaScript, and Python and the other con of "Easy integration with other Amazon services", Lambda functions may be all you need to process the events. This is particularly useful for creating projections (often as other DynamoDB tables) and other read models in a CQRS pattern.
Pro Free tier
DynamoDB offers a free tier which allows up to 40 million database operations a month for free.
Pro Option for hosting the database service on the cloud server.
If you wanna host your database on the cloud server, you can have both the option as Database as a Service (Pre-installed and managed database) or Infrastructure as a Service (If you want to have root access and manually want to install the database).
Pro High uptime
All the cloud services are with 99.95% uptime.
Pro Cost-friendly
F(x) Data Cloud provides public cloud server at a cheap price. The basic plan starts at $1.99/month.
Pro Great Support
Typically answers in minute.
Pro Provides high configurations
They provide 32 vCPU, 128 GB RAM, 2000 GB SSD, 9 TB network. For large businesses, high configurations are required.
Cons
Con Poor documentation
In true AWS fashion, the documentation for DynamoDB is not top notch. While the learning curve is generally very soft and it's not hard to learn, you need to have at least some experience with cloud and database management to be able to start using DynamoDB and understand the documentation.
Con No GPU provided
GPU is not provided.
