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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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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Great storage, encryption, can integrate with AWS services for data analytics and extract meaningful information from data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

No table joins are allowed, cannot use foreign keys to refer to other tables in the database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Self Managed

Easy to use

Good Documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Doesn't work well in the scenarios where you have to get lots of aggregated data from your table Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Storage of inconsistent schema items and the automatic storage management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Nothing as of now.

AWS could improve the sdk Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

High availability future. The security of the AWS cloud. The global tables and Dyanmodb accelerator. 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/servers. Joins are not possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

It is compatible with MongoDB.

It is fast.

It is scalable. we do not have to worry about outage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

MongoDB is not fully compatible

Some functions are limited

Can be hard to learn Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

I like the serverless feature of DynamoDB, and it's the only powerful NoSQL DB in the AWS cloud platform. And now DynamoDB is available for on-demand billing that one more advantage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

DynamoDB doesn't support for more sort key's, that the disadvantage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The encryption facilities provided by it is something I found best. The ability to parallelize multiple read/write streams also improves performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

The lack of transaction system is something which could cause damage to important data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

One of the main Amazon DynamoDB advantages in my opinion is the pricing model based on data read and writes instead of the volume data. Basically you do not care about the amount of data you are storing into the database.

Besides that, the integration with Amazon DynamoDB in your application is quite simple. Even if there is not a SDK available for your application platform, the communication with the database is via HTTP requests, what turns the integration easy to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

The documentation is not simple to follow. There are many co-related pages linked each other, sometimes describing the same information. I think it is just a matter of bad organisation. In general, all the information you need about how to use Amazon DynamoDb is there, the difficult part is to find what you are looking for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

I like it's high level of performance, very fast and secure connectivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

It has few limitations but it's fine in most of the use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The simplicity of the whole dynamo db and how easy it is to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

I didnt find anything that I dislike in it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.