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Amazon DynamoDB

188Judge labels
22First choices
31Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
16% in NoSQL for enterprise buyers
Rank 2 of 73 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 21% of its 67 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Amazon DynamoDB →
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business2 of 60
11%60 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market2 of 73
11%67 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise2 of 54
16%57 labels
accepted challenger
In nosql · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Amazon DynamoDB for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
NoSQL databasesData platform11%2 of 7321%67accepted challenger▼−1Since September 2026: 11% → 10%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Time series databasesData platform0%24 of 660%1under 10 labels · led by TimescaleDB at 63%
Vector databasesData platform0%29 of 440%1under 10 labels · led by pgvector at 35%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.

Movement

Since September 2026, Amazon DynamoDB held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · NoSQL · by segment

Small business▲+11Since September 2026: 2% → 12%, +11 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
12%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 0 pointsRank 4 → 2 of 59
Mid-market▼−1Since September 2026: 11% → 10%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
10%from 11% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 10 pointsRank 2 of 69, unchanged
Enterprise▼−7Since September 2026: 24% → 17%, −7 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
17%from 24% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 4 pointsRank 2 of 53, unchanged

All categories · Mid-market

CategorySeptember 2026NowChangeReadingRank
NoSQL11%10%▼−1Since September 2026: 11% → 10%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.Within noiseRank 2 of 73, unchanged
Time series DBs0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 24 of 66, unchanged
Vector databases0%0%newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.New this editionRank 29 of 44, unchanged

Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.

The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions

By model

How each model treated Amazon DynamoDB across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.511204
GPT-5.4 mini02305
Gemini 3.5 Flash22116
Perplexity Sonar04015
Grok 4.2011125
Mistral Small12115
DeepSeek V4 Flash04015
Llama 4 Maverick01102
Qwen 3.7 Flash03205
Kimi K202147
GLM 4.7 FlashX01214
MiniMax M2.503115
GPT-6 Luna04116
Muse Glimmer 30B22015

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct37 labels3
Paraphrase37 labels9
Comparative38 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained21 labels5
Scale-constrained28 labels5
Negative27 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative188 labels in all, every segment counted; 22 of the 25 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“I'd typically recommend starting with a managed document database (MongoDB Atlas or DynamoDB) if you want flexibility” Claude Haiku 4.5 · NoSQL · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“DynamoDB is a pragmatic default because it gives you managed key-value performance with document-style JSON values” Muse Glimmer 30B · NoSQL · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Amazon DynamoDB – #1 of 31 tools in a 2026 round-up, and listed as best managed key-value at scale” Muse Glimmer 30B · NoSQL · comparative prompt · first choice
“I want a $0/month bill to start and zero server maintenance | AWS DynamoDB or Firebase” Gemini 3.5 Flash · NoSQL · budget prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Avoid DynamoDB as a primary application database unless your use case is a clean fit for key-value patterns” Kimi K2 · NoSQL · direct prompt · hard negative
“Avoid DynamoDB unless you are deeply invested in AWS” GLM 4.7 FlashX · NoSQL · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“AWS guidance says to avoid large items, reads on non-key attributes, and scans, which means it can be a poor fit if your access pattern is not key-centric” Perplexity Sonar · NoSQL · negative prompt · soft negative
“many NoSQL databases (such as Amazon DynamoDB, Oracle NoSQL Database, or Couchbase) may be more complex and costly than traditional SQL databases” Mistral Small · NoSQL · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Amazon DynamoDB, over the 188 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Amazon DynamoDB was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
MongoDB180 of 188102Compare →
Redis117 of 1885Compare →
Apache Cassandra106 of 1882Not among the top eight
Couchbase95 of 1884Compare →
Azure Cosmos DB64 of 1883Not among the top eight
Neo4j52 of 1881Not among the top eight
Google Cloud Firestore45 of 1885Compare →
PostgreSQL37 of 1888Compare →
ScyllaDB37 of 1882Compare →
Apache HBase25 of 1880Not among the top eight
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Amazon DynamoDB. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 155 of the 188 answers that named Amazon DynamoDB and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

mongodb.com66
guideflow.com52
thectoclub.com45
aerospike.com40
aws.amazon.comYour site40
couchbase.com39
g2.com39
us.fitgap.com36
infoworld.com34
daily.dev33

384 of the 424 domain citations in answers naming Amazon DynamoDB came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/nosql-database-software48
thectoclub.com/tools/best-nosql-database43
aerospike.com/blog/ten-best-nosql-cloud-databases35
daily.dev/blog/top-10-nosql-dbaas-providers-202433
pingcap.com/article/top-10-nosql-databases-to-consider-202430
dnsstuff.com/best-nosql-databases28
instaclustr.com/education/nosql-database/nosql-databases-types-use-cases-and-8-databases-t27
peerspot.com/categories/nosql-databases26

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

aws.amazon.com ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Amazon DynamoDB takes 11% of first choices and MongoDB takes 74%.
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In search

Google, US estimates
Position for “nosql database”
5
Position for “nosql databases”
5
Searches for its name, Google
3,600 a month (“amazon dynamodb”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
80 a month
Organic visits to its site
about 9,238,321 a month
Searches its site ranks for
150,884 · 37,235 in the top three
Sites linking to it
282,981
Paid Google search
22 searches its ads show for, about 942 clicks and $20,476 a month (estimate)
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
11%
rank 2 of 73 in nosql
Segment leader
74%
MongoDB
First choices
22 across its categories
Named in
188 answers
Its own site cited
in 155 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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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

Last twelve months

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

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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.

Names read as Amazon DynamoDB

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Amazon DynamoDB; a claim can dispute any of them.
DynamoDB 27AWS DynamoDB 3AWS DynamoDB + vector capabilities 1DynamoDB (AWS) 1

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The company

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  • where Amazon DynamoDB is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
  • the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
  • its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
  • who was chosen in the answers that did not name Amazon DynamoDB, and every reason the record gives;
  • a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
  • one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
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Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Amazon DynamoDB is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
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Amazon DynamoDB is among the products AI models recommend first in NoSQL databases this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

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