Compare Couchbase to DynamoDB™

Customers are switching to Couchbase for performance, price, ease of use, and versatility

CHALLENGES

Critical DynamoDB pitfalls that Couchbase overcomes

With Amazon DynamoDB, you’re locked into the AWS platform with high and unpredictable costs. Support is lacking for mobile and edge applications. And scaling is expensive and cripples performance.

CHALLENGE #1

High and unpredictable operating costs

DynamoDB quickly becomes an expensive platform for data management as a project grows.

CHALLENGE #2

Lack of multi-purpose versatility

DynamoDB is a key-value database. You pay extra for caching, search, eventing, analytics, and mobile.

CHALLENGE #3

Limited performance at scale

DynamoDB runs into crippling performance issues when pushed to scale.

CHALLENGE #4

Mobile and edge computing

DynamoDB doesn’t have an embedded database or support for enterprise mobile and edge applications.

What’s included
Fast key-value access
JSON document support
Built-in caching
Row/document size limit
Unlimited table size
Unlimited global secondary indexes
SQL-friendly language
SQL joins and group by
Full-text search
Unlimited regional data replication
Tunable scaling of data access services (MDS)
Mobile database and sync
Cross-cloud and on-premises deployment
Low TCO

Couchbase
20MB per document

DynamoDB
Limited
DAX is extra cost
400 KB per row
10TB max
20 per table
10TB per region
Serverless

CUSTOMERS

What customers are saying

“We produce more data on a single MedallionClass cruise than would have been created in history. All that intelligence is invested back into the guest experience.”

John Padgett, President, Carnival Corporation

100 vessels across 10 cruise lines

5,000+ passengers aboard the ships

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“For us to set up a resilient implementation of Couchbase, it took us minutes. We stood up three servers, balanced the load, and instantly we were resilient.”

Robert Lawrence, Product Owner of Digital Catalysts Platforms, PG&E

20,000 employees

16 million customers

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