Google's Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon's DynamoDB "for most workloads," Google says. Google today announced that Cloud Spanner, its distributed, decoupled relational database ...

AWS announced new database capabilities for Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB, and introduced Amazon Neptune, a new graph database service.

Amazon Web Services is improving the performance of its DynamoDB database service with Parallel Scan, which gives users faster access to their tables. DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service that ...

With DynamoDB, Amazon offers and on-demand web-scale distrubted database to the tens of thousands of customers who already use other cloud computing services from Amazon.

Google claims that, thanks to throughput and storage improvements to Cloud Spanner, the service is now effectively half the cost of DynamoDB.