DynamoDB was released in 2012, Cassandra in 2008, so it is definitely not a clone of the former :) It is loosely based on the Dynamo paper like most modern dis

DynamoDB was released in 2012, Cassandra in 2008, so it is definitely not a clone of the former :) It is loosely based on the Dynamo paper like most modern distributed databases, but Dynamo and DynamoDB are very different things. Riak could be another interesting option in that space. Redis is more adapted for small datasets with high workloads and low durability expectations (i.e. do not host a Bitcoin exchange purely on it unless you really know what you are doing :p).