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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 Information Technology and Services
UI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Amazon DynamoDB"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Ease of Availability and setup of DynamoDB helps to scale and restore it up whenever required.

Using it to store Doc data types and provides high security in comparison to MongoDB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Limitations of Datatypes which can be stored namely like datetype, thus adding a layer of transformation before storage.

More advanced tuning and controls can he provided to users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
UE
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Amazon dynamo db"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The best part is that it offers NoSQL, so no need yo worry about tables and columns and other tiring things to bootstrap your products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Accidental data getting corrupt as there is no proper schema. But that is not a serious problem if dealt eith seriously. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
AM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Very well documented and easy to pick up"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Very well documented and easy to pick up. It is swift, and it integrates well with all other amazon web services. The documentation was extremely lengthy and fit all my use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Query the data is limited in dynamo DB followed by the joins, which are practically impossible in dynamo DB. The cherry on top is deployable on AWS only and not personal desktops. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Elegant and Obscure NoSQL in DynamoDB"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

1. Horizontal Scaling (This takes a load off Ops activities)

2. Automatic sharding

3. Virtually Infinite scaling - it scales better than SQL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

The query apis takes some time to wrap you head around, and documentation needs to get better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications
UT
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Dynamo db"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Scalibity, robustness and ease of use of dynamodb Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Limited scope of query and joins since it's no sql db Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anil B.
AB
Assistant Consultant
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Review of Dynamo DB"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Experience the ease, Reliability, In built security, backup and restore. Also find suitable for mobile, web, gaming and IoT applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Table joins are not possible, No triggers, No foreign key concepts, No server side scripts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vignesh R.
VR
Software Engineer III
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.
"Dynamo DB Review"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

It is easy to access. It is secured and scalable. It has great community to help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

The cost of Dynamo DB is too expensive than other premium dbs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhishek K.
AK
Software Developer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Dynamo DB"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

DynamoDB is great to use because of it's serverlwss feature. I love the interface provided by Amazon to interact with dynamodb with clean Ui. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

I am very happy with Dynamodb. Have very good investment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Services
UC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"IT is not of the best in market. Only advantage smoothless AWS integration"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Seamless AWS integration.

Reliability

Wrappers such as Global Dynamo Table Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Limits on Queries.

False results for count on paginations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Airlines/Aviation
AA
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Fully managed, Serverless, key-value NoSQL database"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

It is so cheap, highly available, and scalable. Dynamo streams provide a way to capture the events and processes in our way. Milli-second latency can be achieved by DAX. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Cannot do ad-hoc queries as a traditional database. It has a steep learning curve. 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