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Amazon DynamoDB Pros and Cons: Top 5 Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users value the scalability of Amazon DynamoDB, benefiting from its automatic scaling and flexibility under heavy loads. (6 mentions)
Users appreciate the ease of use of Amazon DynamoDB, finding it simple to create and manage NoSQL databases. (4 mentions)
Users value the easy integrations of Amazon DynamoDB, enhancing their experience with other AWS services and tools. (4 mentions)
Users appreciate the ease of use and scalability of Amazon DynamoDB, benefiting from its high-performance and flexible features. (4 mentions)
Users value the seamless integration with AWS services, enhancing overall functionality and user experience with DynamoDB. (4 mentions)
Users find DynamoDB relatively costly with high expenses and limited query flexibility complicating their experience. (5 mentions)
Users find the complexity of the pricing model and search functionality challenging, requiring careful data organization and management. (2 mentions)
Users experience a difficult learning curve with DynamoDB, requiring careful data organization and understanding of its NoSQL architecture. (2 mentions)
Users find the inefficient search cumbersome and costly, requiring precise access patterns and lacking full-text search capabilities. (2 mentions)
Users note a steep learning curve with DynamoDB due to its NoSQL nature and limited query flexibility. (2 mentions)

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Amazon DynamoDB Pros and Cons

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Jayakumar S.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

First of AWS UI is awsome to navigate the service and all. Enough documentation, tutorials, skill builder portal and much more ways AWS is helping to US Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Nothing to say for dislike but if the cost is reducible that will be great for every organisations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Akshay D.
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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

There are multiple things that I like about DynamoDB but the best would be that it is fully managed services means AWS handles all the aspects like hardware provisioning, setup, configuration, patching, scaling and backups. This allows developere like us to focus on building applications rather than managing the underlying infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

The thing which I dislike about DynamoDB is the lack of built-in schema migration. If we need to modify our table schema then we also need to handle migration manually to manage data consistency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prem K.
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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

- Fully managed, so not having to worry about backups, scaling, administration etc

- Low latency, can handle many millions of requests per sec

- Horizontally scalable

- Secure, IAM based access

- Dynamic pricing based on usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

- Cost becomes high if the application regularly gets huge traffic

- Cost also can become high as we have to mention read and write capacity prior to creation and estimation might be skewed sometimes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aparna S.
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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

As it is a document DB, so fulfils my purpose if I want vertical and horizontal scaling of my data.

Using AWS dynamo db it is very easy to manage the database. The connection using CDK with the code is very very smooth. So overall very smooth experIence is best about Amazon Dynamo db Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

There is bit confusion around composite primary keys, so probably that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LV
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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Highest Read and Write rate.Best loader performance. Replication latency is excellent when compared with other DB services. Interaction with table data is very good experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

It does not support various data types. Sometimes performance lags much. Lower storage capacity. DB cost is also high compared with competitor services. Other than no compromises. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Subhash S.
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Products used within AWS Databases: Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon DynamoDB
What do you like best about AWS Databases?

Easy to use for developers, Everything is there, don't need to waste time to setup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Databases?

The cost little bit high compare to some other providers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hariprakash B.
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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

When I used AWS DynamoDB for my reconciliation project, which had millions of information per entity and I had almost 25 entities, the retention speed was amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Nothing everything seems good to me. The frequent updates could be controlled but as it's evolving to its best version it's acceptable. Console can be made little bit easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brijesh Kumar P.
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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

Amazon web services is one of very first organisation to provide infrastructure as a service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

There is nothing which I don't like in AWS. AwS certification cost is bit higher side. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AJ
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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Security-wise dynamoDb offers it's own built-in security adding on to the backup feature that will help developers in playing with the database. It also provides perfect import and export feature which helps in easy handling of data. It is useful for all levels of enterprise applications as it has no limitations. No limitation on size of data give users a large vision of long term planning of their applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

While performing single transactions in a database, dynamoDb resticts support for mutiple operations in a single database transaction. Query running speed can also be a limitation of this tool as other similar tools are a bit faster while quering a database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

This is a managed NoSQL service with strong consistency and predictable performance that shields users from the complexities of manual setup. Better service providing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

UI interaction should be better and lot of features are dumped on the same screen. Navigation is a little much difficult when compared with other services. Other than everything is OK. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.