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Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database service from AWS that stores key-value and document data · aws.amazon.com ↗

#2Best rank (enterprise)
14/14Models named it
21First choices
38Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inNoSQL databases #2 enterpriseTime series databases #48Vector databases #30
What AI models recommend in nosql

Read the same way at every company size.

The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.

Small business
Asked for a small B2B company
#2 of 54 named for small business
Share of first picks8%

MongoDB is first at 81%.

Mid-market
Asked for a mid-market B2B company
#2 of 79 named for mid-market
Share of first picks12%

MongoDB is first at 74%. 2 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.

Enterprise
Asked for an enterprise B2B company
#2 of 55 named for enterprise
Share of first picks17%

MongoDB is first at 53%.

Why models recommend it

“lean toward a managed, cloud-specific solution (like DynamoDB or Cosmos DB), even with the potential lock-in”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“MongoDB (as a managed service like MongoDB Atlas) or Amazon DynamoDB would be my top recommendations”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“For a key-value database service, Amazon DynamoDB is the most frequently recommended option.”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Top Key-Value Database Recommendation: Amazon DynamoDB ... is the top key-value pick”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice

What gives them pause

“AI models and experts often advise avoiding DynamoDB as a primary application database unless your use case is a perfect fit for key-value patterns.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Avoid managed enterprise tiers (DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, etc.)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · warning
“DynamoDB (but model your access patterns rigidly upfront)... DynamoDB's provisioned mode can be cheap or catastrophically expensive if misconfigured.”Kimi K2 · Scale-constrained question · warning
“Amazon DynamoDB if your data model is not naturally key-based or if you expect to "query anything" like a relational database.”GPT-5.4 mini · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Amazon DynamoDB, over the 208 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

ProductNamed togetherPicked instead
MongoDB
197119Compare →
Redis
1233Compare →
Apache Cassandra
1193Compare →
Couchbase
963View →
Azure Cosmos DB
935Compare →
Google Cloud Firestore
644View →
Neo4j
630View →
ScyllaDB
520View →
PostgreSQL
468Compare →
Apache HBase
340View →

What the models named instead of Amazon DynamoDB →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

At a glance

Stated on Amazon DynamoDB's own site, not checked by Gane.

Also from Amazon
Amazon API Gateway, Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs, Amazon AppStream 2.0, Amazon Athena, Amazon Athena Federated Query, Amazon Aurora and 48 more
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How this is measured

Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.

Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.

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Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages the answers that named Amazon DynamoDB came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 154 of the 208 answers that named Amazon DynamoDB and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aws.amazon.comIts own site58
aerospike.com52
mongodb.com52
gane.ai/indexpublisher (Gane)50
docs.aws.amazon.comIts own site47
couchbase.com40
g2.com38
github.com35
learn.microsoft.com30
capterra.com29

276 of the 431 domain citations in answers naming Amazon DynamoDB came from a third party's page. Fifty were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/nosql-database-software27
aerospike.com/blog/the-best-distributed-nosql-database26
aws.amazon.com/nosql25
gane.ai/index/it/it-data/nosql-databases/smb25
github.com/quanpan302/KB-engineering-handbook/blob/main/content/hld/part-2-building-blocks25
aerospike.com/blog/ten-best-nosql-cloud-databases24
capterra.com/nosql-databases-software23
thectoclub.com/tools/best-nosql-database22

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Amazon DynamoDB across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.511103
GPT-5.4 mini11316
Gemini 3.5 Flash14027
Perplexity Sonar04004
Grok 4.2012126
Mistral Small12025
DeepSeek V4 Flash03115
Llama 4 Maverick01203
Qwen 3.7 Flash13015
Kimi K203014
GLM 4.7 FlashX02316
MiniMax M2.511103
GPT-6 Luna03104
Muse Glimmer 30B04116

What it publishes

Addresses on aws.amazon.com
280,316
subdomains included
Content
42,799
counted in the table below
Documentation
2,345
Product · Integration
3,213 · 49,021
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Blog27,117undatedAPI gateways, ETL
Glossary or explainer6,521undatedETL, MFA
Case study2,47602019-03-01WAF, Observability
Webinar or virtual event2,057162026-07-01Streaming, API gateways
Comparison1,52102025-09-01Object storage, ETL
Conference or event1,48202025-11-01Vector databases
Report or ebook1,090162026-09-01WAF, NoSQL
Podcast or video351undatedETL
Template or tool15002025-05-01
News or press34undated

Most recent

Events in person

The twelve months before September 28, 2026

As the event pages on aws.amazon.com state them, read September 28, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page aws.amazon.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name ETL (168); 0 name its categories the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 28, 2026.