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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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Gokula A.
GA
Senior AWS & DevOps Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Awesome fully managed NoSql database service"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

It offers high scalability for high performance based applications. And also it is automated most of the bottleneck points Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

It doesn't support joins. There is a limitation in querying data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sai Teja K.
SK
Data Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"One of the best DB available in AWS"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Automatically manages the data traffic of tables of multiple servers and maintains performances.

Allows creation of database tables that can store and retrieve any amount of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Deployable only on AWS and cannot be installed on individual desktops and servers. No triggers. Querying data is extremely limited. No triggers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Being serverless and nosql. can handle the load efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

cost is little high if the tables are used too much Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ashish M.
AM
Associate Software Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Easy to use and we'll documented"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Easy to setup

Well documented

Simple querying Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Index are challenging

Ties you with AWS infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
CF
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"High performance key value store for any scale"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Easy to set up with few clicks and the time to live is super fast at any scale Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Non-cloud version is not available for development environments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Naitik K.
NK
software developer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Good No-SQL DB With Analytics"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

I like some features like scalability , achiving, authorization, backup, and auditing.

Pay based on data usages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

No specific crons. infra is not under our control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
UF
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Good option for Nosql database use case"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

No sql database , read /writer are pretty faster, dynamo streams are pretty good for data history capture requirements, back up and recovery options are great, over all pretty good performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Dynamo api partial updates are little complicated and won't cover 100% scenarios, doesn't support some key ids as names for table attribute names Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Raj C.
RC
DevOps Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Amazon DynamoDB is a great service to get up and running with a reliable and scalable NoSQL DB."
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The ease of scaling up and down, within and across AWS region. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Amazon DynamoDB is an AWS specific service and can't be deployed on on-prem servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Management Consulting
UM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"I would"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The scalability and the efficiency that it provides and at the same time new and needed functionalities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

I didn't find anything that I didn't like Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VG
Senior Backend Engineer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Best NOSQL Solution by AWS"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

I liked the saclability of Amazon DynamoDB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

The thing I didn't like is the inability to do DB joins 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