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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?

Amazon DynamoDB offers several advantages that make it popular choice for developers and businesses like Scalability, Performanace, Fuly Managed Services, NoSQL Database, Security and compliances, Cost-effective and so on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Amazon dynamo DB offers numerous benefits, there are some considerations and potential down sides to be aware of like query flexibility, limited secondary indexes, eventual consistency, Data size limitations and so on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Easy to design simple apps.

Integration with other services offered in amazon eco system.

Quick POC

Distributed DB. Bit reliable.

Easy to connect and use .

Use if you need simple key value pair Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Overall the design issues peeked in during the development

Ended up using MongoDB as the limitations came later in the stage of development

If Dynamo fits your usecase why not Redis.

Not a reliable solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

AWS is clearly the market leader in hyperscaler world; its richest partner ecosystem and marketplace solutions is testament of adoption and user acceptance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Pricing calculator needs more innovation and simplification when it comes to features. It lacks basic features like copying of service and export of calculations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

I have used Amazon DynamoDB for my DevOps projects, it's easy and comfortable, easy managing, connecting it to my project, it's safe, highly recommended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

I like it. I don't have complaints to be honest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

AWS offers easily accessible, affordable cloud storage options for businesses that can be accessed from anywhere in the world. You can get on-demand cloud services and it has pay-as-you-go pricing which is affordable and best for businesses. You can quickly move your applications to the cloud quickly and simply by using just a few clicks. Additionally, it offers specialized database applications with the proper tools already included. It is a must-have for any business, startup, or corporation, in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

At first, it feels complicated for beginners to get started with it. The interface of half of the applications is still pretty old. Also, the billing of the used cloud services is not mentioned in detail. It has a very overall view of the prices. Sometimes, you really need to optimize your expenses all the time. Also, there should a predicting tool to know how much would it cost to run a particular job on the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Best thing about Dynamo DB is scalability and seamless data replication, it is really helpfully while dealing with billions and trillions of data, fast performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Very limited querying option and not able use any joins, joins play very important role while querying the data but dynamo db will not allow us to use the joins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

DynamoDB is fully managed services provided by AWS; therefore as an Administrator, fewer efforts for its management.

Managing security, scalability, and availability are at ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

There are certain things which you need to plan before building your Database. There are some limitations you should know before using DynamoDB.

1. Limited query capabilities.

2. No Transactions

3. Data size limitation i.e 400kb per item Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Amazon DynamoDB provides you fast database services and its performance is very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Amazon DynamoDB provides you fast services but charges are high due to this Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It offers seamless scalability, allowing me to adjust my database's capacity up or down based on my application's needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

It is costly for projects where we have to spin up many environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about AWS Databases?

AWS offers a very broad set of databases to choose from the RDS instances. it also has very highly infrastructure that make it the goto cloud serverice provider. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Databases?

I dont really find anytinng as a con in my experience with AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.