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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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Sunil K.
SK
Associate Solution Architect
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"When it comes to NOSQL database, I liked the dynamoDB lot and it's very efficient."
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Quickly scale with the size. Very fast and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Sometimes though it's running fast, we can't do the automation clustering easily.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
AF
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Its Awesome"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Event based triggers , scalability and availability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Portal UI is not good, I don't like that Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhinav M.
AM
Full-stack Developer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"i am a beginner for Amazon DynamoDB"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

So i like transaction feature as well as key value storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

since it has all the feature of mongoDB so there is nothing to dislike about DynamoDB Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"DynamoDB is very fast and easy to use with apis in many languages it is similar to goovle firestore"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Easy to use and with a bunch of different apis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Joins are not possible, querying is somewhat less convenient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"DynamoDB a yet another great service"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

It allows to use auto scaling.

It allows in memory caching.

It is fast and reliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

It is not possible to add trigger.

It is very limited with queries.

Can only be used on AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"I have 3 years of experience using Amazon DynamoDB, best to store huge amount of data"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

No charges for insertion of data, and the speed of retrieval of live data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Filtering of data, and no relationship between tables Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vaibhav K.
VK
System Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"DynamoDB review"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Fast, Reliable, Scalable and Easy to implement no SQL for AWS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Limited scope for Triggers and Joins and querying Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Services
CI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"High Pricing"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

There is no maintenance and no backup and especially it allows to replicate the data across multiple AWS regions in order to give fast and local access to data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Very Expensive for small scale industries, Applying joins in Dynamodb in memory is complex, lack of support for nested attributes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gopal M.
GM
Software Development Engineer II
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"It's been a great experience"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

It's performance, scalibility and persistence of event steam Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Querying data is limited, no joins are there Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SR
DevOps Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Smooth and quality"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Effectiveness and quality, good design, nice filters Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Not much, all fine, need some more features in future 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