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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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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Simple to use and easy to scale while being cost effective Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Staff with existing SQL backgrounds struggled a little, but once the concepts were covered, they were fine Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Dynamo help my application to increase my performance. It is easy to use and implement. Migration is super easy and well supported.It support docket and microservices management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Not major dislike from my side but the only downside is it's nosql database when we tried to implement some more relational data that time we have to think more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Divyansh A.
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Products used within AWS Databases: Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Aurora
What do you like best about AWS Databases?

With the most demanding tech when it comes to cloud, there are lots of tutorials available online for easy setup of AWS Databases. As such it's always easy to get hands-on experience with this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Databases?

Need in-depth knowledge of AWS product to deal with complex problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nilesh C.
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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Deliver apps with consistent single digit milliseconds performance.

Data Security with encryption. Also, Automatic Backup and restore up to 99.999% availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Limitation of 400kb object size for each attribute that you put into the DynamoDB table.

There are only 4 GSI index attributes allowed per DynamoDB table. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Debarshi M.
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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

First, it's serverless in nature, with no need to manage Infra, operations. just focus on the code rather than setting up and configure it, hassle-free Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Well, there is no such dislike about DB, but last month it was a bit more complex to do server-side pagination in DDB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ravi G.
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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

There is very tough thing in development is Database management management and Amazon DynamoDB such a good tool for database management because of the features that are provided by amazon DynamoDB and nice user interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Nothing till now. Because as a full stack developer I know how much user interface matters for users. Features are an abstract part but the main and very important think for a developer is that how easier way can be provided to use those features that totally depends on a good user interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Awesome performance and very good scalability. TTL is very helpful and storage management features are very good maintained. Automatic data management is very helpful for large scale application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Application navigation is sometime feel dump. Since lot of features are integrated into the single application, it's very confusing to begining level of application usage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

We use dynamoDB for storing multiple queries of data, its very easy to setup using API for node.js, Moreover, it's fast and very reliable for creating backups of database using custom commands as it uses no-sql based database which reduces our workload and we can auto-scale structure using K8 cluster-based architecture using EC2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

The UX of the database needs to improve as its harder to search for one data entry in multiple database records, moreover, the speed of API varies according to different locations which can make the system's performance decrease substantially. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The most helpful thing abiut dynamo db is it is serverless so i dont have to manage the server, all is taken care by aws and also its architecture is object oriented and also have a feature of locking which is very useful for state lock in terraform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

The thing which i dislike is the latency when comparr to aurora and also i cant use the sql querry becoz of that k cant rely on this for my application as i will have to train my devs separately for thus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vignesh W.
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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

- no downtime

- easy to create new tables and maintain millions of rows without confusion

- Good console to look up and analyse the data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

- I did not find a way to use the increment operator and simultaneously put an item if it did not exist.

- no batchread on indices and no joins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.