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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 Hospital & Health Care
UH
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Explore your data"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

A fantastic use for data storage when you need flexibility and don't want to keep updating relational tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Vendor lock in, expensive, UI was initially a bit confusing to me, but once I explored a bit (not long) it clicked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NG
BI Architect
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Fast DB for key-value"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

AWS DynamoDB works great for our need, where we need to retrieve a large set of data (by key) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Dynamo tables can only be scaled (manually) a limited number of times Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SN
Senior Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Easy to work with"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The ability to start the development process. We don't have to worry about provisioning or schemas in advance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Cannot change a table from non-global-table to be a global-table later Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nick V.
NV
Founder / CEO
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"scale and ease of use"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

how fast the database is and how easy it is to get started Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

it ca get pretty expensive pretty fast, so you have to always be mindful of the cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MP
SOlutions architect
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Capacity and auto scaling"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Fast writing and reading - good performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Auto scaling should not take 10 minutes; dynamo should be able to identify a peak in load within one minute and scale accordingly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Research
UR
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Amazing Amazon"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

It's very use friendly and very straightforward. We have been using it for a bit and like our experience with it so far, the customer support is also very friendly and has been instrumental in making our experience pleasant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

I don't have much to complain about at the moment. The services I've used through DOB have been germane and ice enjoying used the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NL
Sr Engineering manager
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"88888 service is really good"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

availabiltiy and scalability

and also the ease of retriaval is awesome

it also has great infomation storage and retireval Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

nothing much as of now... probably additon of new dynamodbmapper features could be useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nidhi B.
NB
Supervisor, S/W Engineering, IT Operational Support Services
Staffing and Recruiting
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Amazed with the speed"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Speed and how fast it operates is amazing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

UI - accessing the rows and queries is not very user friendly. Deleting multiple rows is problem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SR
Project Mangement Manger
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"it is great and easy to use"
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

ease of use and learning curve is very miminmal. Good suport and training material. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

nothing specific- I didn't use it very exptensively to provide a improvment / dislke points. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CH
Programmer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"It''s convinient to scale the table."
What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

I can easily scale the table by console or code and just cost the value I use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

If I can know the throttle in real-time will be better. 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