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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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Bhagyashree V.
BV
DevOps Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Speedy and simple to utilize"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Incredible documentation.

Speedy and simple to utilize.

Scales well with our utilization cases.

Questioning usefulness is restricted which restricts our utilization cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Can be expensive for projects where we need to turn up numerous conditions.

Probability to Recommend

Need expertise

terminologies are difficult with basic understanding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Biswajit J.
BJ
Full-stack Developer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Have majorly used lambda, kinesis, Dynamo db"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

Lambda concurancy and scalability with the high traffic is really helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Sometimes the cold start with lambda creates issue with low user interaction Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ayushi  A.
AA
Software Developer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"A good NoSQL DB with faster response service."
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Very easy to understand, create and use the schema and queries. It does not require a specific structured language knowledge and provides api connectivity. Competitors like MongoDB require structured language knowledge which is not required in Amazon DynamoDB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Did not find any drawbacks yet. It worked well for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohammad M.
MM
Senior System Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Amazon DynamoDB Review"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Very versatile and easy to use.

Simple to learn and utilize

highly scalable

concept of primary and secondary key is very familiar to any other database concepts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Bottleneck due to huge amount of data transfer traffic sometimes

Not a relational database

No schema

not compatible with SQL

expensive when data is huge

Management of primary and secondary keys Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yogesh K.
YK
Senior Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Amazon dynamo db is very popular Nosql db in which we can store key value pair data or documents"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Amazon dynamo db is the Nosql db and we can store any type of data inside it. Performance vise its very useful, well optimized database among other Nosql db. I liked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Dynamo db has its certain limitations.we couldn't install it on individual desktop.its only deployeble on AWS. We could not use joins and there is no trigger for use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"feedback of AWS services"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

I would like Amazon Dynamo db, S3, Amazon SNS and AWS auto scaling, Amazon RDS , Lambda service, Amazon identity and access management, Amazon Queue service which offers all their respective benifits along with additional inbuilt security feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

There is nothing to dislike about AWS cloud. It provides all the features of any cloud provider. Only sometimes the cost of the compute services varies which may dislikes for personal use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohit S.
MS
Director
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Aws provides scalability and uptime for one of our web app project"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

We really liked aws dynamo db feature , Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

its billing system is quite messed, we got billed high due to system error Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Suyash J.
SJ
Application Development Analyst
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Fast and flexible NoSQL server less Database"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The best thing about Dynamo DB is DAX Dynamo DB Accelerator, a fully managed in-memory cache that provides fast performance and read and write through cache. And also Secondary index and global secondary index. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Everything is on the scale. The only thing that is not good is Dynamo DB TTL. That is, we cant define Time to Live for cache objects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AS
Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"AWS Experience Review"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

I am a software engineer and have used AWS extensively. The cloud technology is really matured and has wide variety as compared to its competitors. I like its easy to use user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

User gets confused with much variety. There should be tool suggesting which technology to use based on your requirement. Some technologies like Postgres aurora didn't proved much useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Darshan P.
DP
Senior Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Modern age master"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Capacity to store key-valued services and data structures. Scaling up is very efficient and easy, in-memory caching is very handy. It is very easy to use with AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

It cannot be used with AWS. Queries are very limited and SQL like structures and joins are not possible on it.

Se more support should be added to use it outside AWS as well. And a few more functionalities needed to be implemented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing Insights

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

12 months

Average Discount

10%

Perceived Cost

$$$$$
Amazon DynamoDB