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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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Verified User in Hospitality
UH
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Smooth and Great product"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

scalability cost effective smooth high coomputation power Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

cost, customer support can be better, compatibility can be better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive
UA
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best cloud computing platform to deploy the services"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

Its amazing speed and ease to access the platform to build and deploy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

there is nothing to be desliked. amazing solution for carious problem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"It have alot of features as compared to MySQL"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

It's transaction handling. I has alot of features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Currently I has all the feature needed for a software development so it has nothing to dislike Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
CF
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Would definitely recommend this one to the ones who are interested in this."
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

The services provided by AWS, starting from S3, EC2, SNS, SQS and growing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

The naming conventions. Coming from someone who worked on Azure, naming can get a bit tricky Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Its great No SQL DB. though its No SQL, you van query it"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Data availability. Scalability. Though it actually is JSON data formate in back but aws provide facility to query it. we can create indexes too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

We can provide primary key only in where condition. It would have beed great if we allowed to filter data for non primary key Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best for small enterprises"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The one which I like the most is the sort key & primary key options. I appreciate a few of its features like scanning & querying options, Trigger options.. etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

DynamoDb is suitable to small level enterprises. When we use dynamo for large level enterprises, we should go with RDS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manikant G.
MG
Big Data Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best performance and economical"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Auto scalability, easy access and connectivity, best in class supports.

Solution derivin Documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Connectivity with Spark connection with batch update and barch connections. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Food & Beverages
UF
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Experience with Dynamo db"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Scalability for high traffic system and query results time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

To deal with transactions and locking mechanism. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Its very easy to use schema less arch"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

It is schema less with many powerful feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Documentation is bit difficult to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Broadcast Media
UB
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Very likely to recommend friends and colleagues"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Super cache performance

Faster query execution

Lower memory usage

Lower cpu usage

Lower network bandwidth

High computation

Low maintenance

Easy to monitor

Easy to maintain Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Nothing till date

All things are up to date

Memory usage is low

Cache performance is great

Network bandwidth is good

Cpu is well maintained

Easy to monitor

All is well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pricing Insights

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Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

12 months

Average Discount

10%

Perceived Cost

$$$$$
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