--- title: SimpleDB Reviews meta\_title: 'SimpleDB Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 51 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how SimpleDB works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 51 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Database Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/database-software --- # SimpleDB Reviews & Product Details SimpleDB is a highly available and flexible non-relational data store that offloads the work of database administration. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [SimpleDB Community](https://www.g2.com/products/simpledb/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by SimpleDB. ### Machine Utilization $0.14 per Amazon SimpleDB Machine Hour ### Data Transfer [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/simpledb/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![MongoDB Atlas](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MongoDB Atlas") MongoDB Atlas 4.5/5(900) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mongodb-atlas/reviews) [ ![DigitalOcean](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "DigitalOcean") DigitalOcean 4.6/5(756) ](https://www.g2.com/products/digitalocean/reviews) [ ![IBM Db2](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "IBM Db2") IBM Db2 4.1/5(683) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-db2/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/simpledb/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 51 real user reviews. Implementation Time 3 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Laura B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Laura B.") LB Laura B. Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/24/2018 "Decent cloud DB solution" 2.5/5 What do you like best about SimpleDB? I enjoy using Amazon tools as they tend to be well documented and supported Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SimpleDB? Steep learning curve for those unfamiliar with basic database administration practices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SimpleDB solving and how is that benefiting you? free cloud-based database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") UR Verified User in Retail Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/22/2015 "Simple DB is for Simple use cases!" 2.5/5 What do you like best about SimpleDB? As the name suggests its simple! Storing the data and managing is as simple as such using a webservice. Also it is non relational so there are constraints in maintaining for different kinds of data. I was using this database as a combination of AWS, EC2, S3. Setting this database was as difficult and confusing as any other AWS instances. There are different country regions and to choose where the database would be and then create domains, data, attributes etc etc. But this is also an advantage as it writes to multiple zones and durable. Similar to AWS access management can be configured at user level and for domains. It can be best used when use cases are on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Like maintaining S3 metadata on simple db. The pricing is like pay for what you use so that should be OK if it meets your requirements. Though amazon dynamo db is getting popular like very other database simple db has its own characteristics to be considered for! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SimpleDB? The main issue with this database is doing any algebraic operations or running date functions on columns or aggregations etc. Also pricing. For most of the use cases we can use other famous databases like HBase especially when you have set up Hadoop cluster and running Map Reduce jobs. Indexes wise simple DB looks better. It automatically indexes all data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SimpleDB: So if you are just looking for storing a small sized non relational or unstructured data and you do not do any major database operations then SimpleDB is for you! It is Highly available and flexible non-relational data store. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SimpleDB solving and how is that benefiting you? Main advantage is there is no database developer or admin support needed. It can be used as any other key value database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 4/28/2015 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") UH Verified User in Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/24/2015 "I used for my project in grad studies" 2.5/5 What do you like best about SimpleDB? Its is easy to store your data in buckets in amazon web services. I could create multiple clusters and use it with different processing programs that I wanted to use to evaluate the data. Since it is a cloud computing platform can be accessed and evaluated from any terminal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about SimpleDB? I was not able to figure out a way to manipulate data, So I ended up uploading the manipulated data every time I changed it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering SimpleDB: Could work as perfect DB for could computing purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is SimpleDB solving and how is that benefiting you? I was trying to use it for my project in Big data course. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about SimpleDB? 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