Migration guide
Migrate from DynamoDB to Aerospike
What you'll learn
DynamoDB works well at the start, but as traffic grows, auto-scaling lag, inconsistent throughput, and unpredictable latency become real operational problems. Aerospike is built to deliver stable, sub-millisecond performance under volatile access patterns, without the runaway costs that come with DynamoDB's per-transaction pricing model.
This guide walks you through the key architectural differences between the two databases and gives you a clear path to migration. You'll learn how data types, key structures, sharding strategies, and consistency models map across both systems, so you can move confidently with minimal disruption to your application.
Key highlights
Aerospike scales horizontally across nodes with no auto-scaling lag, maintaining consistent throughput where DynamoDB's default ramp-up can take 10 to 15 minutes
Unlike DynamoDB's per-read and per-write pricing, Aerospike charges by data volume, making costs more predictable as transaction rates grow
Aerospike supports strong consistency and distributed ACID transactions across multiple records, capabilities DynamoDB cannot provide natively
Aerospike's Hybrid Memory Architecture stores indexes in memory and data on NVMe SSDs, enabling low-latency access at petabyte scale without performance trade-offs
Aerospike's namespace, set, and key structure maps cleanly to DynamoDB naming conventions, simplifying data model refactoring during migration