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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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Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/11/2016

"A great non-relational database with automatic management and a low learning curve"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

Up-front pricing offered by DynamnoDB (as with all AWS services) is great given that some of the competitors out there have very nebulous pricing plans. Automated scaling and replication is great, so you're saving the cost of (probably) a full-time DBA person. Storage is fast too: SSDs are very superior to having your own SATA drives running Mongo or the like. The low learning curve (of querying the DB) is great as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Multiple indicies is something that it lacks. This results in DynamoDB being great for key lookups, but really bad for multiple predicate queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:

Weigh the costs of learning a new system (and potentially switching your company over to the complete AWS ecosystem for ease of use in conjunction with DynamoDB) before you contemplate making the switch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Solving EHR data storage and querying we've had vast performance increases over our SQL databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maxime S.

Senior Software Developer

Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/7/2016

"Not enough support"

2/5

What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

I was interested in using DynamoDB so I wouldn't have to create an maintain a MongoDB cluster. The high availability is nice and seems to be quite easy to scale up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Not enough tools to support usage. MongoDB has many very mature ORMs and great community support. Development with DynamoDB was incredibly slow and difficult.

Learning how to use DynamoDB is difficult because of the unfriendliness of the AWS documentation. The documentation are very vague, in a generic layout clearly not fit for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aaron L.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/11/2016

"My Experience with DynamoDB: Good and the Bad"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

I like the autoscaling and extensive feature set. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Dislike the steep learning curve and lack of proper documentation for complex operations with the SDKs. For example the updateExpression key is Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:

Hire/Ask questions from someone who has worked on DynamoDB previously. DynamoDB is very extensive, there are multiple ways of doing the same operations, understand how Dynamodb works and how you should integrate it before you start coding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Web Apps, general data storage I need to read and add inconsistently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wojciech K.

Team Lead

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/12/2016

"Got chose if you need a lot of reads"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

You can decide and change in the future what throughput do you need.

This is a special important if you don't know how many user you will have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Scan and search could be faster - if you have a lot of data this is expensive and time consuming operation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/7/2016

"I tried used it to try writing an API"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

For me, the best part of DynamoDB is the price and the fact that it is stored on SSDs. It's hard to find a better deal than that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

The API, at least when I was using it, for Node was pretty horrible. Not sure if it has been updated since. But it is unlike any other database I have used, in a negative way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:

Make sure you read the documentation and are aware and accepting of it's drawbacks. If you can work around them, then it can be a great solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

Trying to build and deploy a simple and easily scalabe API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel J.

Software Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/8/2016

"DynamoDB Quick Evaluation"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

DynamoDB is very easy to setup and use. Even the free-tier provides enough functionality for a small to medium-sized web-application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

The only thing I did not like so far is that secondary indices always require to upgrade to the payed-tier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aviv K.

R&D Team Leader

Internet

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/7/2016

"Smart database implemented in a simple way"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The indexing mechanism solves almost every case of data usages.

Local indexes defines the key of the documents and global indexes help you model your documents differently Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

- The admin is uncomfortable to work with

- Aggregation functions are missing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fei Z.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/8/2016

"My First NoSQL DB Expreience"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

schemaless design. You can add a field anytime easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

There are only hash key and range key in DynamoDB. Sometimes it's hard to search a record using a filter that is not hash key or range key. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/11/2016

"Increasingly Better"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

The best part about Dynamodb is the managed infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Occasional outages and the historically poor documentation. This has improved in recent months but took an extended period of time to accomplish. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:

The system and documentation has become increasingly better over the last 2 years. AWS seems to be putting a lot of effort into filling the gaps in their managed infrastructure offerings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

High user interaction scenarios such as voting on content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/11/2016

"Serverless Web Applications"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?

No database scaling to worry about, no database server to deploy - just an API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?

Nothing yet, been using it for around 2 months. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:

If you want to use Amazon AWS and a 'noSQL' database, this is a good option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?

"Serverless" web applications. Replacing traditional database/server architecture with AWS services. Not having to configure or maintain servers is a huge benefit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.