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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?

The configurability of the service. It allowed us to quicky adjust to read and write capacity needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

It can get pricey. The cost was a major concern using this product because it can definitely cost a lot depending on the use case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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migration from previously used DB was easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Inded training was not planned properly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Ease of use, managed service, quick to setup and reliable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

lack of backup capability in the gov cloud environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The best part is scaling is very easy and having NoSQL database helps to have different databases for a single application where appropriate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

It would be great if the cost of the product can be brought down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Easy to setup and create tables and easy to use AWS SDK to do CRUD operations. It's scalable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

You may end up with hot partitions due to bad choice of partition keys and when that happens no amount of provisioning helps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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no sql to worry, being a java developer this is a easy to work with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Nothing to be specific.We still need to expand our usage, we are on early stage of adopting this, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

We all know how fast DDB is but triggers is the game changer. We are able to cleanse data as it comes in using Lambda for reliable and fast architecture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Architecting DDB can be complex for those coming from Relation Systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

I best like how easy it is to create and get started with a new DynamoDB table. Integrating streams is also simple to setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

I dislike each GSI being a full copy of the table data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The Amazon way to store your data in the cloud. Don't have to buy a huge contract database to store data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

It is only available in Amazon and it locks you into only Amazon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The ability to store database key and value pairs for speedy application development without having to stand up any infrastructure or application installations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Nothing so far with this service as it fits our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.