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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 Banking
CB
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Dynabo DB Review, reliable database"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Performance and Scalability and data management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Table Joins, Triggers and limited queries management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Games
IC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Dynamodb"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Dynamo is great for NoSQL databases, it has the advantages of a single table, where we can save a lot of money table. Even it's a little tricky to form a single table, it's very useful for large data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Documentation for the dynamo is not that much clear, querying has its limitations, where I used Django for SQL DB. I felt a little bit tough while querying in dynamo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Food & Beverages
UF
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Too Fast and scalable"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Latency and availablity and scalable and resilience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Nothing much all good with the service provider Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sumita G.
SG
Software Developer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"It's will useful for storing date (Format can be anything)"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

store structure and non-structure data

Manage access control

Achieve zero downtime

handle more load (using scaling functionality ) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

There are no specific issues. Clients prefer dyanomicDb to a database management system (DBMS).

The query structure is complex.

Traction management is very stuff to handle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Medical Devices
UM
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Amazon DynamoDB review"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

High availability Databases. It is NoSQL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Complex structure, difficult to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
CH
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Amazon DynamoDB review"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

scalability, readiness, throughput, operations easiness Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

charge maybe but it depends on the type of requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chirag M.
CM
Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"fast and predictable performance with great scalability"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

don't have to worry about hardware provisioning, setup and configuration, replication Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Querying data is extremely limited. Can not install on individual desktop Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Its amazing"
What do you like best about AWS Cloud?

It contains everything a business needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Cloud?

It's sometime costly for small startups. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Utkarsh P.
UP
Software developer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Awesome NOSQL type database with great documentation"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

I liked the documentation. It is extensive and covers almost all aspects of things one should know to get started with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Understanding the cost of resources can be difficult to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Visakh C.
VC
Associate Architect
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Dynamodb is fast and only having some issue in querying without knowing primary key"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Dynamodb is fast and easy to setup. It's scalable and easy to connect with AWS services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Data accessing difficult without primary key 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