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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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Verified User in Financial Services
IF
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Highly Scalable and best Database for noSQL"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

It works really well if you are retrieving individual records based on key lookups. Complex queries or scans require careful indexing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

it's not cost-effective and cost explodes for fast-growing datasets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aiswarya M.
AM
Technology Associate
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"A Database Who Understands The Team More Than Anyone."
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The Data Visualizations in tabular as well as file based, makes really very easy for understanding the data. the realtime integration with low latencies. yes it makes one fall for it with addictions. #nosql Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Well, I didn't find any disadvantages because it has been introduced for advantages scalable, optimized, easy to understand with gui as well as cli. For improvements, please make it more realtime, zero latencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education
UP
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"one if the extremely helpful software present"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Performance and scalability is incredible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Writes to db are expensive, would like for it to be less expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

vinayak p.
VP
Full Stack Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Excellent serverless database for big data"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

It's serverless architecture is really good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

We required detail information related to architecture in advanced, in order to make primary and secondary index Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Suman D.
SD
Mobile Application Developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"It's awesome with amplify graphql."
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Connecting multiple DB with grapql schema and seems authorization access to tables with cognition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

creating index and pagination with last token is not helpful for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"It is very good for AWS platform."
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

It provides persistent and flexible storage. Easy to store data and can also retrieve it easily and fastly whenever required. I like this feature of AWS the most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

I don't think there is anything in this to be disliked. It well supports the AWS platform and also fulfills customer requirements. So according to me it's perfect for use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Real Estate
AR
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"I found DDB best solution when we needed nosql."
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Scalability is the best part of dyanamo DB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Joins are not possible between tables in dynamo DB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Meet G.
MG
SDE
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Easy to get started with"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Its easy to use due to good available documentation on aws. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

The user interface on aws console keeps on changing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Management Consulting
CM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"It's insightful and really powerfull"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

Ease of use and how insightful the data presentation can be Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

nothing at all. i highly recommend the use of aws Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education
AP
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Good experience"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

Aws services availability is maximum compared to any other cloud service provider Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

Aws cloudformation designer template need to be improved 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