Comparison

Amazon DynamoDB vs Elasticsearch

On the evidence we track, Amazon DynamoDB leads this comparison with a composite score of 88/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★Amazon DynamoDB88

Elasticsearch73

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Amazon DynamoDBLeader	Elasticsearch
vioscaleAI score	88 / 100medium · 73%	73 / 100medium · 58%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✗
Modelpricing.model	freemium	commercial
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	high
Starting pricepricing.starting_price	$0.25	$99
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	9	350
Security
Certificationssecurity.certifications	SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR	-
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	-
Fedrampsecurity.fedramp	✓	-
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	✓
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	✓	-
Iso27001security.iso27001	✓	-
Pcisecurity.pci	✓	-
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	-	6.4
Soc2security.soc2	✓	-
Trust centersecurity.trust_center	https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/	https://www.elastic.co/legal/trade-compliance
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	-	Count: 45 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.elasticsearch%3Aelasticsearch&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 2 · Max severity: HIGH
Reliability
Sla pctreliability.sla_pct	99.999	99.95
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	✓
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	-	18,551
Github starsadoption.github_stars	-	78,195
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	-	100
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	-	1
Historyrelease.history	-	20 items
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	-	Java
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide · Popular in US	Available worldwide · Popular in US
Content
Faqcontent.faq	7 items	7 items

Score

vioscaleAI score

Amazon DynamoDB88 / 100medium · 73%

Elasticsearch73 / 100medium · 58%

Pricing

Free tier

Amazon DynamoDB✓

Elasticsearch✗

Model

Amazon DynamoDBfreemium

Elasticsearchcommercial

Price level

Amazon DynamoDBlow

Elasticsearchhigh

Starting price

Amazon DynamoDB$0.25

Elasticsearch$99

Transparent

Amazon DynamoDB✓

Elasticsearch✓

Integrations

Count

Amazon DynamoDB9

Elasticsearch350

Security

Certifications

Amazon DynamoDBSOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR

Elasticsearch–

Disclosure policy

Amazon DynamoDB✓

Elasticsearch–

Fedramp

Amazon DynamoDB✓

Elasticsearch–

Gdpr

Amazon DynamoDB✓

Elasticsearch✓

Hipaa

Amazon DynamoDB✓

Elasticsearch–

Iso27001

Amazon DynamoDB✓

Elasticsearch–

Pci

Amazon DynamoDB✓

Elasticsearch–

Scorecard

Amazon DynamoDB–

Elasticsearch6.4

Soc2

Amazon DynamoDB✓

Elasticsearch–

Trust center

Amazon DynamoDBhttps://aws.amazon.com/compliance/

Elasticsearchhttps://www.elastic.co/legal/trade-compliance

Vulnerabilities

Amazon DynamoDB–

ElasticsearchCount: 45 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.elasticsearch%3Aelasticsearch&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 2 · Max severity: HIGH

Reliability

Sla pct

Amazon DynamoDB99.999

Elasticsearch99.95

Status page

Amazon DynamoDB✓

Elasticsearch✓

Adoption

Dependent repos

Amazon DynamoDB–

Elasticsearch18,551

Github stars

Amazon DynamoDB–

Elasticsearch78,195

Activity

Commits last 30d

Amazon DynamoDB–

Elasticsearch100

Release

Cadence days

Amazon DynamoDB–

Elasticsearch1

History

Amazon DynamoDB–

Elasticsearch20 items

Language

Primary

Amazon DynamoDB–

ElasticsearchJava

Market

Availability

Amazon DynamoDBAvailable worldwide · Popular in US

ElasticsearchAvailable worldwide · Popular in US

Content

Faq

Amazon DynamoDB7 items

Elasticsearch7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capability comparison for Databases
Capability	Amazon DynamoDB	Elasticsearch
Core
Data model	Document	Document
ACID transactions	✓	-
SQL support	-	✓
Scale
Horizontal scaling / sharding	✓	✓
Replication	-	✓
Query
Full-text search	-	✓
Vector search	✓	-
Deployment
Managed cloud offering	✓	✓
Hosting	Cloud only	Cloud + self-hosted

Core

Data model

Amazon DynamoDBDocument

ElasticsearchDocument

ACID transactions

Amazon DynamoDB✓

Elasticsearch-

SQL support

Amazon DynamoDB-

Elasticsearch✓

Scale

Horizontal scaling / sharding

Amazon DynamoDB✓

Elasticsearch✓

Replication

Amazon DynamoDB-

Elasticsearch✓

Query

Full-text search

Amazon DynamoDB-

Elasticsearch✓

Vector search

Amazon DynamoDB✓

Elasticsearch-

Deployment

Managed cloud offering

Amazon DynamoDB✓

Elasticsearch✓

Hosting

Amazon DynamoDBCloud only

ElasticsearchCloud + self-hosted

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Amazon DynamoDB

Leader

A fully managed cloud database service for key-value and document data, providing automatic scaling, pay-per-request billing, instant availability, and single-digit millisecond performance without requiring infrastructure management or maintenance.

Independently observed

Elasticsearch

A search platform that distributes data across multiple nodes to handle large-scale indexing and retrieval through standard web APIs.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Amazon DynamoDB

Leader

from $0.25/gbUsage-basedFree tier

From pay-per-request usage or provisioned capacity. Free tier includes 200M requests/month and 25GB storage.

On-DemandPay per read/write request and storage used
- Serverless
- Automatic scaling
- Vector search
- ACID transactions
- Global tables
Provisioned CapacityFixed provisioned throughput with optional reserved capacity
- Predictable pricing
- Reserved capacity discounts
- Write throughput provisioning
Free TierFree
- Learning and development
- Personal apps
- Prototypes

as of 2026-10-05verify ↗

Elasticsearch

from $99/moSubscription14-day trial

From $99/month. Free 14-day trial available.

Standard$99/month
- Distributed Elasticsearch across AWS, Azure, GCP
- ES|QL query language and APIs
- Default monitoring and AutoOps
- Alerting with detection engine
- Malware prevention
- +6 more
Gold$114/month
- All Standard features
- Reporting
- Third-party alerting actions
- Watcher
- Multi-stack monitoring
- +3 more
Platinum$131/month with SLA
- All Gold features
- Machine learning (anomaly detection, supervised learning)
- Vector search with ELSER and e5 models
- Cross-cluster replication
- Log categorization
- +5 more
Enterprise$184/month
- All Platinum features
- Searchable snapshots in cold/frozen tiers
- Elastic Maps Server
- Cross-cluster search with ES|QL
- ES|QL Data Federation (query S3 directly)
- +13 more

as of 2026-09-07verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Amazon DynamoDB	Elasticsearch
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
macOSPlatforms	✗	✓
WindowsPlatforms	✗	✓
LinuxPlatforms	✗	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✗	✓

Platforms

Web

Amazon DynamoDB✓

Elasticsearch✓

macOS

Amazon DynamoDB✗

Elasticsearch✓

Windows

Amazon DynamoDB✗

Elasticsearch✓

Linux

Amazon DynamoDB✗

Elasticsearch✓

CLI

Amazon DynamoDB✓

Elasticsearch✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Amazon DynamoDB✓

Elasticsearch✓

Self-hosted

Amazon DynamoDB✗

Elasticsearch✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (3)

Amazon Bedrock
OpenAI
Cohere

Amazon DynamoDB

Leader

17 total - 14 not shared

AWS Lambda
Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon SageMaker
Amazon Redshift
Amazon S3 Tables
DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
AWS Key Management Service (KMS)
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
AWS CloudWatch
AWS PrivateLink
DynamoDB Accelerator
Kinesis Data Streams
CloudWatch
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Independently observed

Elasticsearch

43 total - 40 not shared

Slack
Jira
ServiceNow
PagerDuty
Microsoft Teams
IBM Resilient
xMatters
GitHub
Jina AI
NVIDIA AI
Prometheus
Grafana
AWS Bedrock
Sarvam AI
Google ADK
LlamaParse
Mistral
Elastic Agent
Beats
Logstash
Filebeat
Metricbeat
Heartbeat
Webhooks
+16 more

Independently observed

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