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Amazon DynamoDB vs Amazon Timestream comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 3, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon DynamoDB
Ranking in Managed NoSQL Databases
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Amazon Timestream
Ranking in Managed NoSQL Databases
9th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Managed NoSQL Databases category, the mindshare of Amazon DynamoDB is 9.9%, down from 13.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Amazon Timestream is 4.8%, down from 6.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Managed NoSQL Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon DynamoDB9.9%
Amazon Timestream4.8%
Other85.3%
Managed NoSQL Databases
 

Featured Reviews

DG
Lead SRE at JavaTech
Has improved infrastructure availability and simplified integration through reliable cloud-based data management
Amazon DynamoDB is readily available, and we do not have to worry about downtime unless there is a global outage. From a cost perspective, it presents a challenge. The primary feature is constant availability without concerns about server maintenance or ensuring database uptime, as AWS manages everything from their end. We simply set up the database and allocate it to customers according to their requirements, making it an easy and smooth transition. Regarding security, being in the cloud provides numerous security features. Amazon DynamoDB operates at the backend within our three-tier architecture. We have front hosting, business logic or application server in the middle, and databases at the backend. Additionally, we implement security layers such as SSL, creating a highly secure environment. The solution has proven to be reliable thus far.
JS
VP Global IoT Solutions at 1NCE
Effortless time-series data analysis with seamless AWS integration and a straightforward setup
We use Amazon Timestream as a data historian for IT data. It stores all individual measurements of our customers' IoT devices for a certain period of time, allowing them to perform time-series-based analyses on top of it Using Amazon Timestream has been seamless due to its integration within the…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Storing is a valuable feature. We can store as an entire object rather than the traditional structure of the data."
"DynamoDB is easy to configure, easy to use, and allows for writing data in JSON format."
"Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed service by AWS, and it is designed to provide fast and predictable performance."
"The transactions are very fast, and the cost is low with Amazon DynamoDB."
"DynamoDB is a key-value database, and it's valuable if you have simple scan queries and don't need to do point searches."
"Once we decided on AWS for a cloud hosting platform, we were able to increase our sales dramatically."
"There aren't any issues with the product; on the contrary, it has helped us build our product from zero point to the end, and I like that there's no need for external configurations or DevOps engineers."
"It has helped us build our product from zero point to the end."
"What I like best is that the tool is easy to collect and store data and is fast and scalable. The fully managed database is easy to understand."
"The best things about Amazon Timestream are it's maintenance-free, customizable, and has no lag issues. It's always real-time."
"You can quickly aggregate data from the last ten years with Amazon Timestream."
"If you drop a message, the solution's technical support will definitely reply."
"Using Amazon Timestream has been seamless due to its integration within the AWS ecosystem and ease of use for the engineering team."
 

Cons

"DynamoDB doesn't provide server-side encryption, so we had to do it manually."
"The solution could be cheaper."
"The only challenge I face with Amazon DynamoDB is that with the partition key and secondary key, the query doesn't become very easy."
"In future releases, I would like a feature that lets us store information about public holidays or weekends. When customers call during those closed periods, we could use DynamoDB to trigger an automatic message. So this would eliminate the need for agents to manually inform customers."
"The process of making a query could be optimized."
"Having an import option, whether through browsing or local file uploads, would significantly improve the efficiency of data migration, enabling users to swiftly transfer large volumes of data into DynamoDB."
"The pricing model should be improved"
"Support is better if using a paid version."
"Arranging the database schema is a bit challenging."
"The tool could be improved by increasing the batch size from one hundred records to five hundred or a thousand to speed up indexing."
"The solution could be improved by making it easier for new graduates like me to use. Better explanations of queries and how to use them with other AWS services would help."
"There are certain features that we would like to see added and we are collaborating with the product teams on these areas."
"There are disadvantages when it comes to time series databases since you can't delete anything from Amazon Timestream data."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Amazon DynamoDB is a cheap solution."
"For our use case usage, DynamoDB's pricing was okay. However, for high-traffic applications, the pricing structure becomes less attractive."
"The product is expensive"
"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 can say that it is not the cheapest one because if we had our own kind of storage solution, our own hosting, and instead of using the cloud, we opted for some other method, it would have been a tool of a lower cost."
"Amazon DynamoDB is not an expensive solution."
"Its subscription cost is lower than similar databases offered by other vendors."
"It's an expensive solution"
"We pay over $10 million a year to Amazon."
"Amazon Timestream's pricing seems manageable to me."
"For 1GB of data, the solution charges $ 0.01 in the US region."
"We don't see high costs with Amazon Timestream, which may vary by company."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Construction Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Educational Organization
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business24
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise19
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon DynamoDB?
In terms of improvement for Amazon DynamoDB, I can see that it supports a very good amount of querying, but if they can enhance that part by providing aggregation functions similar to SQL and other...
What is your primary use case for Amazon DynamoDB?
Amazon DynamoDB is primarily used for data storage since it is a non-structured database.A specific example of how I use Amazon DynamoDB for data storage in my work is that we use it in correlation...
What advice do you have for others considering Amazon DynamoDB?
My advice for others looking into using Amazon DynamoDB would be that it depends on the architecture needs and budget; if they aim for cost-efficiency, they should use Amazon DynamoDB, but if they ...
What needs improvement with Amazon Timestream?
We are working on a few open change requests with the engineering teams on AWS's side. There are certain features that we would like to see added and we are collaborating with the product teams on ...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Timestream?
We use Amazon Timestream as a data historian for IT data. It stores all individual measurements of our customers' IoT devices for a certain period of time, allowing them to perform time-series-base...
 

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