Item: Amazon DynamoDB
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our integration and Data-analytics platform uses AWS services and Amazon DynamoDB is one of the key service. All our data storage are happening in Amazon DynamoDB. Our ETL audit related information are using Amazon DynamoDB. It helps to improve our data processing speed and performance. As it is available in AWS we no need to worry about scalability, security and cost effective.

Pros and Cons

Data storage and retrival
Scalability
availability
performance

More pre-defined functions for ETL SCD option
More datatype support
configuration and setup can be made simple

Return on Investment

Increased our data availability
Very good performance
Easily scalable

Scalability

Its one of the key database in cloud infra-structure and we can easily integrate that with other aws services. Fully managed, so no need of a dedicated team for this that saves lot of money. Easily scalable and secure. Taking a backup is simple. Latency is very low. Data restore can be done in a quick time.

Performance

Yes, we see a very good performance benefits in a cost effective manner. No lag when we compare the performance across different region.
As its availability is very good, it helps all our business users and customers to access it more seamlessly. It support more complex queries as well that a plus.

Alternatives Considered

MongoDB

Amazon DynamoDB seems to be more cost effective and easy to integrate with other aws services.

Key Insights

Do you think Amazon DynamoDB delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Amazon DynamoDB's feature set?

Yes

Did Amazon DynamoDB live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Amazon DynamoDB go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon DynamoDB again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Databricks Lakehouse Platform, Workday Human Capital Management, SAP Concur

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon DynamoDB is a serverless , full managed service by amazon. we no need to worry about the scalability and performance. Availability is very good compare to other cloud native application. Integrating it with other AWS service are simple. We can run very high performance operation more easily and cost effectively. No need to maintain a separate database.

A perfect cloud DB

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon DynamoDB