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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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Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy to use NoSQL database from AWS"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

I love AWS DynamoDB and how it logs data seamlessly. It's very fast and perform rapid CRUD operations. Also the features of Integrating it with AWS lambda, cognito and IoT is amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

The docs can be a littlle more clear. Especially when it comes to the policies and IAM user part. Also the UI is a little primitive but okay. Improve the dashboard UI design to somewhat modern. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AJ
S
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great On-Cloud non relational database"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

DynamoDB is easy to use like any other AWS service. It's the best no SQL keyvalue database. I loved the way it performed faster in operations and how it integrated with other services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

The dashboard could be a little lively. Especially when it comes to the analytics and traffic insights part. Also manual entry of data can be made more user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hemraj C.
HC
Software Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"DynamoDB review"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Reliable, help large and small enterprises. Options like backup, restore and securing data is great for mobile as well as web. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

DynamoDb can't be used outside aws environment that is one disadvantage. Querying data is also limited. Table join is impossobile Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vikram  S.
VS
Solutions Architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Ease and flexibility drives me to AWS"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

The user experience, available documentation, and completeness (one stop for all infrastructire and services such as focus on Blockchain, machine learning and other

requirements) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

It's hard to put dislikes as I find it outstanding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
UR
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Review on serverless NoSql database"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Mostly No sql DB's can not handle the load when it comes to executing queries for millions of customers, to clear this bottleneck there comes the role of Amazon Dynamo Databse. It made us very easy for us to fetch and upsert data while real time users accessing the application. Pricing is also effective . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

There are no dislikes about the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alec W.
AW
Information Technology Architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"AWS Cloud Review"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

Management Console - is intuitive and extremely straightforward ---

very powerful -- tool set Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

-pricing - on various services are not cost-effective - different price metrics for different regions costing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ajay k.
AK
Backend Software Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"DynamoDB review by techie"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

DynamoDB is an easy-to-set up and hourly-based billing system. Easy to configure with various AWS services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Querying models are little weak. It's billing depend on usage also so might get huge price to pay. new updated are rarely come. Joins are impossible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NIKHIL K.
NK
Management consultant
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Aws clould worked seemlessly for me and I would highly recommend it to all my friends"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

It is quite seamless and very product centric. Working on this fulfills all the requirements for my project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Compared to azure, it is a bit complicated. Even a beginner can grasp it easily but on AWS, the person needs to have developer level thinking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AS
S
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Amazon DynamoDB is the best serverless database out there!!"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Amazon DynamoDB is the best serverless database. It is very fast in operations. User can even facilitate real time data exchanges from database. It's also super easy to build applications on top of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

The console is kind of messy. manual data entry section as well as insights can be made more dynamic. Reports could be sent directly to emails. Also the pricing could be more flexible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Srinivas D.
SD
Senior Software Development Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"One of the best Serverless database"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

I like the ease of creating tables and modifying their attributes once the table is created. The different database features support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

As of now, we cant see Dynamodb database logs if we want to, we need to depend only on metrics 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