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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?

Really easy to setup. Really fast response times Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Would be great to have some resources on getting started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pankaj V.
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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The best part of using DynamoDB is storing any schema-less or unstructured data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Mostly I wouldn't say I like that about dynamodb. That we face a lot of trouble whenever we try to fetch a large amount of data. we can bring the data by increasing our AWS plane, but it will become costly for us Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Namrata Y.
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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The best part about Amazon dynmodb that it has a feature of DAX that was beneficial in case of latency,suppose in case of gaming we need minimum latency in that case it was beneficial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

The dislike is that it has limited options to querying the data within table and restricted the complexity of the queries. This is the main point which I generally dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have built websites using AWS infra and Dynabo DB best suits to be used here Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

There is nothing I dislike about DynamoDB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We can store any graph data easily which is not possible in SQL. Also we can store unlimited amount of data here Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

we cannot estimate the cost when data grows and this leads to unexpected cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

1) It is easy to understand.

2) easy to implement.

3) Easy to retrieve key-value pair.

4) you can use to store metadata of any application.

5) High performance and scalable.

6) Allows you to store structured and unstructured data.

7) support many data types. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

1) It is costly.

2) UI is not proper can be improve

3) it's little bit slow on network

4) Consol is irritable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

We believe in only pay for what we need. And AWS is one of the best platform for our networking needs. Helps us eliminate the need of having to maintian on prem servers and cost assoicated with that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Little more transperency on pricing model would be nice. Sometimes we get surprices with the chargeback for amount higher than we planned for. This can be improved by providing more accurate forecasts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vikas S.
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What do you like best about AWS Databases?

It has lots of features and you can do customisation as you want per. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Databases?

It is not a downside but you have to every fundamental bit inside it to use it to your advantage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is very highly scalable, serverless , integration ready and easy administration with auto backups Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

It is little expensive , slow and schemaless which makes us thing to go with oracle databases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Data Modelling is the best in Amazon dynamodb Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Sharding and compatibility is the issue which i dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.