# Amazon DynamoDB vs Supabase

| Attribute | Amazon DynamoDB | Supabase |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 76.7 (72% (medium)) | 78.3 (73% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"DynamoDB is a distributed key-value database that handles workloads at any scale with zero infrastructure management. It provides automatic scaling, multi-region replication with strong consistency options, ACID transactions, native vector search, and built-in integrations for analytics and event processing. It is indexed under NoSQL Databases.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr","question":"What is Amazon DynamoDB?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Amazon DynamoDB offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr","question":"Is Amazon DynamoDB free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Amazon DynamoDB supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr","question":"What platforms does Amazon DynamoDB support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Amazon DynamoDB, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr","question":"Can Amazon DynamoDB be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 11 integrations for Amazon DynamoDB, including AWS Lambda, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3 Tables, DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), plus 3 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr","question":"What does Amazon DynamoDB integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Amazon DynamoDB. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Amazon DynamoDB not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr","question":"What security certifications does Amazon DynamoDB have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Amazon DynamoDB is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr","question":"Where is Amazon DynamoDB available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"Supabase is a PostgreSQL-based platform offering hosted databases with automatically generated REST and GraphQL APIs, real-time subscriptions via websockets, database functions, and vector search capabilities. It combines open source components to provide a managed alternative to proprietary backend platforms. It is indexed under Relational Databases.","source":"https://supabase.com","question":"What is Supabase?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Supabase offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.00. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://supabase.com/blog/pricing","question":"Is Supabase free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Supabase supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://supabase.com/blog/pricing","question":"What platforms does Supabase support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Supabase, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://supabase.com","question":"Can Supabase be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 12 integrations for Supabase, including OpenAI, Hugging Face, Stripe, Algolia, AWS, Amazon Bedrock, Figma and LangChain, plus 4 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://supabase.com/blog/pricing","question":"What does Supabase integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Supabase. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Supabase not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://supabase.com/blog/security-performance-advisor","question":"What security certifications does Supabase have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Supabase is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://supabase.com/blog/pricing","question":"Where is Supabase available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | DynamoDB is a distributed key-value database that handles workloads at any scale with zero infrastructure management. It provides automatic scaling, multi-region replication with strong consistency options, ACID transactions, native vector search, and built-in integrations for analytics and event processing. | Supabase is a PostgreSQL-based platform offering hosted databases with automatically generated REST and GraphQL APIs, real-time subscriptions via websockets, database functions, and vector search capabilities. It combines open source components to provide a managed alternative to proprietary backend platforms. |
| features.capabilities | `{"schema":"schemaless","hosting":"cloud","data_model":"document","ttl_expiry":true,"consistency":"strong","replication":"active_active","multi_region":true,"partitioning":"automatic","transactions":"multi_item_acid","license_class":"proprietary","managed_cloud":true,"vector_search":true,"change_streams":true,"query_language":"key_only","acid_transactions":true,"secondary_indexes":"yes","horizontal_scaling":true}` | `{"hosting":"both","isolation":"serializable","sql_model":"full_sql","data_model":"relational","deployment":"managed","consistency":"strong","replication":"async","sql_support":true,"extensibility":true,"json_document":true,"license_class":"permissive","managed_cloud":true,"vector_search":true,"full_text_search":true,"acid_transactions":"full","wire_compatibility":"postgres"}` |
| integrations.count | 9 | 12 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"AWS Lambda"},{"name":"Amazon OpenSearch Service"},{"name":"Amazon SageMaker"},{"name":"Amazon Redshift"},{"name":"Amazon S3 Tables"},{"name":"DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)"},{"name":"AWS Key Management Service (KMS)"},{"name":"AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch"},{"name":"AWS PrivateLink"},{"name":"DynamoDB Accelerator","native":true},{"name":"Kinesis Data Streams","native":false,"category":"streaming"},{"name":"CloudWatch","native":false,"category":"monitoring"}]` | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"Stripe"},{"name":"Algolia"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Figma"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"Vercel"},{"name":"Next.js"},{"name":"React"},{"name":"Flutter"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","summary":"Pay-as-you-go model. Free tier available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/?nc2=h_pr_pr","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T11:06:10.784Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free, paused after 1 week of inactivity","features":["Unlimited API requests","50,000 monthly active users","500 MB database size","Shared CPU, 500 MB RAM","5 GB egress","5 GB cached egress","1 GB file storage","Community support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For passion projects and simple websites","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"egress":"5 GB","file_storage":"1 GB","database_size":"500 MB","monthly_active_users":"50,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$25/month base + usage overages","features":["100,000 monthly active users included","8 GB database size per project","250 GB egress","250 GB cached egress","100 GB file storage","Email support","Daily backups (7-day retention)","7-day API and database log retention","Compute credits included ($10/month)"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"fixed","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"MAU"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.00325,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.125,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.09,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.03,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0213,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"For production applications with the power to scale","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"egress":"250 GB","file_storage":"100 GB","database_size":"8 GB","monthly_active_users":"100,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"$599/month","features":["Everything in Pro Plan","SOC2 & ISO 27001 certified","Project-scoped and read-only access","HIPAA available as paid add-on","SSO for Supabase Dashboard","Priority email support with SLAs","Daily backups (14-day retention)","28-day log retention"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":599,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"With SSO, backup control, and compliance certifications","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Designated support manager","Uptime SLAs","AWS PrivateLink support","24×7×365 premium support","Private Slack channel","Custom security questionnaires"],"description":"For large-scale applications running Internet scale workloads","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Log Drains","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":60,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Custom Domain","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Point in Time Recovery","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":100,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"HIPAA Compliance"}],"summary":"From $25/month for Pro. Free tier available with usage-based overages for MAUs, storage, and bandwidth. Team plan starts at $599/month.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://supabase.com/blog/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-03T18:00:23.565Z","startingPrice":{"amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":10,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.999 | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 1/2/3","status":"active"},{"name":"PCI","status":"active"},{"name":"FINMA","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO","status":"active"}]` | `[{"name":"SOC 2","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | yes |
| security.pci | yes | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://aws.amazon.com/trust-center/ | https://supabase.com/blog/security-performance-advisor |

## Capabilities (Databases)

| Capability | Amazon DynamoDB | Supabase |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Data model | Document | Relational |
| 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 |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-09-21T02:31:49.767Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*