I highly recommend Amazon DynamoDB, with one catch to watch out for
Updated June 27, 2019
I highly recommend Amazon DynamoDB, with one catch to watch out for
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Amazon DynamoDB
We use DynamoDB as a database for one of our products. It solved the problem of processing data coming from different customers in different individual formats. Each client can upload files, with any number of fields, of any type. We ingest this data into DynamoDB and process is using lambda functions from there.
- Speed of writing data.
- Dealing with unstructured data.
- Large, almost limitless volumes of data.
- Cost - it gets pretty expensive, fast.
- Speed of data processing.
- Not having to worry about growing volumes of data.
- Negative - significant initial cost during ramp up period (client-base growth).
We did not use or evaluated any. DynamoDB was our first choice for this particular use case and we were glad we made this choice.
Also, knowing the AWS infrastructure and having DynamoDB integrated into the AWS environment helped us greatly with learning DynamoDB and being able to start using it quickly and with less integration development activities.
Also, knowing the AWS infrastructure and having DynamoDB integrated into the AWS environment helped us greatly with learning DynamoDB and being able to start using it quickly and with less integration development activities.