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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?

Its fast and scalable but again structuring the schema is the main key which lot of developers still don't know because of less documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Nothing only the suggestion should be available about the schemas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Ease of using through small set of codes , its very help with simple structural which we can use with minimal knowledge of using without need of expert knowledge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

mostly nothing ,its always very easy when considering other database systems tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rushabh S.
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What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

Benefits of AWS Cloud:

1. UI is kept as simple as possible. Its not confusing like other cloud platforms.

2. Vast variety of services that cover almost all domains in IT industry.

3. Pricing is very low compared to other cloud providers.

4. AWS documentation is best in industry.

5. Variety of pricing models makes it affordable according to needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Nothing as such. Compared to other cloud providers, AWS is best in the industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

DynamoDB is a powerful and flexible NOSQL database that can handle a wide range of use cases, from small-scale applications to large, mission-critical systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

DynamoDB is a powerful and flexible database, it may not be the best fit for every use case. Users should carefully evaluate their needs and the trade-offs involved before deciding to use DynamoDB or any other database solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The document-based design and easy usage is the biggest reason I use Dynamo DB in AWS.

Also the fact that it is very scalable and I don't need to manage it reduces a lot of overheads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

It is very costly and the cost related to it very high. Sharding the data is very difficult and takes a lot of time for existing data to be sharded into different instances Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anas A.
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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The Scalability feature of Amazon DynamoDB provides high availabilty which makes this database more reliable as compare to others. The data is stored as Key value pairs in this which is easy to read and write. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Since, Amazon DynamoDb is non relational Database, Joins does not work here as a result which makes it difficult to read the data from multiple tables at a same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Prakash U.
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What do you like best about AWS Databases?

AWS covered all types of datas like structured and unstructured data. Tabular format and columner format, key values pairs. Dynamodb is more easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Databases?

Dislike about Cost, small business not easy to handle and proper guidance is must to work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

the most helpful thing about dynamodb is that it is a NoSQL database so storing the data is easier than SQL and the structure can be changed at any time as required.

The second best thing is that it is scalable so a startup can grow easily. Also, it is secure and fast and from a trusted MNC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

The disadvantage can be the cost of the operations and calculating the price for the future. Also searching/querying the database can be a bit complex task. Sometime you may need SQL database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

It's built-in security and back-up feature is one of the best in market. It's multiple region option is also helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

It's difficult to predict cost and also there are limited query options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

It has the best Key-Value Pair mechanism database engine and it is an AWS Managed service so we don't have to worry about the service ups and downs when we have the required storage and memory to store and perform the queries on top of it. It is very fast for getting and posting data. We have used it for a couple of projects in our company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

no dislikes as of now. but this is the main disadvantage of DynamoDB: "Querying data is extremely limited. Joining tables is impossible. No Triggers. No foreign keys concept to refer to other table items. No server-side scripts." Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.