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Add to SafariWhen comparing Orchestrate vs Amazon DynamoDB, the Slant community recommends Orchestrate for most people. In the question“What are the best NoSQL database as a service providers?” Orchestrate is ranked 4th while Amazon DynamoDB is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Orchestrate is:
Orchestrate was built for scale. Orchestrate is a full-fledged distributed data system, provided as a multi-tenant service. There is no need to manage finite server resources like disk space, CPU, or memory
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Pros
Pro Effortless/Automatic Scaling
Orchestrate was built for scale. Orchestrate is a full-fledged distributed data system, provided as a multi-tenant service. There is no need to manage finite server resources like disk space, CPU, or memory
Pro Already set up for you
Orchestrate is a Database-as-a-Service, so there is no downloading, installation, or any other administration. It also makes configuration management and deployment easy.
Pro Great Node.js support
Orchestrate.js is a first class client for Node.js applications
Pro Fault Tolerance Baked In
As a DBaaS, Orchestrate manages replicas and sharding across multiple machines. Additionally, daily backups are managed by the company.
Pro Multiple Query types at Low Latencies
No other database provides Full-Text-Search, Time-Series, Graph, and Key/Value APIs. Moreover, as a DBaaS, the queries are pre-optimized for low latencies. Consistently under 10ms for any query.
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.
Cons
Con Data are not on your server
Since it's a DBaaS, your data are completely on their server. It cannot be run on your server. Backup is handled by them as well, which may be good or not depending on your needs.
Con Not Open Source
Orchestrate is not an open source solution.
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.
