Amazon DynamoDB Reviews

We use the solution to emulate MongoDB for the document database.

The solution is useful for storing JSON documents. DynamoDB is a platform as a service. We don't have to administer the tool. We did not face any challenges while integrating the product with other services.

We use the document database. The primary key is quite slow. The free tier is quite hard to use.

I have worked with the tool for three years.

The tool is stable.

We are satisfied with the scalability of the tool.

The deployment is quite easy. The deployment takes a minute. We need only one engineer to install the solution.

The ROI is very good at the beginning. However, it gets expensive if we use it a lot.

I rate the pricing a six out of ten.

DynamoDB and Cosmos DB are more or less the same. My preference depends on the cloud I am working on. However, I prefer Cosmos DB because I have used it more.

Overall, I rate the product a seven out of ten.

It does the basic stuff. It's an efficient resource, just like a special database.

For us, we are using DynamoDB to store the log credentials or the token, specifically. So that's the use of the service for us.

Speed is the most valuable feature. The speed to store and retrieve data from it.

It would be nice to have some AI features in DynamoDB.

I have been using this solution for around eight months. We don't use the latest version. 

I would rate the stability a ten out of ten. It's very stable.

I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. Around 50 to 60 users are currently using this solution in our company. We use this solution every day. 

However, we don't plan to increase the usage of the solution because we use it to restore some services when they are deployed.

We were testing different services. We used RDS. We switched to this solution for the necessity of this service. The service was changed, and we needed to create a different architecture for the application.

We did not use AWS CLI or the console to configure the services, so it's easy to do all we need.

So, it was easy to set up DynamoDB. I would rate my experience with the initial setup a nine out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy. 

It took a couple of minutes to deploy it. 

We always use Terraform or another EAC tool to create a resource. We never deploy a resource using the console.

One person is enough for the deployment and maintenance of the solution. 

I would rate the pricing a four out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. The price is cheap. It is a cheap service. 

There are additional costs for DynamoDB like the replication and backup configuration.

It's a good service for all kinds of enterprises.  

Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.

We use the product to store historical data. 

The platform is easy to develop and configure. It requires some knowledge of the tool to access, but the process is simple.

They could provide more information or training programs to deliver knowledge to the engineers about the components of relational databases similar to popular vendors.

We have been using Amazon DynamoDB for a year.

I rate the platform's stability a nine out of ten.

In our organization, around five teams use Amazon DynamoDB. The product is scalable enough to meet the application requirements. We plan to increase the usage in different areas within the enterprise. I rate the scalability a ten out of ten.

The initial setup is simple. It requires three engineers to complete the deployment and takes a few weeks.

We implement the product in-house.

It helps us store user advertising data, enabling efficient analysis and data management. The platform's advantage is related to fast access to real-time information for scalability. We can access the data storage from different zones and versions. We can configure it in a way that can improve writing and reading as well.

It is a good product. It supports a lot of functionalities, scalability, and multiple versions. I rate it an eight out of ten.

Amazon DynamoDB is powerful and fast. Its performance is good. 

The solution has size limitations. It also needs to be more user-friendly. 

I have been working with the solution for one and a half years. 

I would rate the product's stability a seven out of ten. 

I would rate Amazon DynamoDB's scalability a nine out of ten. We have 100-200 users for the solution. 

Amazon DynamoDB's installation is not complex. 

Amazon DynamoDB is cheap. 

I would rate the solution a seven out of ten. 

We use Amazon DynamoDB to store data. We have a hardware device that is continuously reading data. For example, there is a sensor generating weather data every second, and we collect the data after 30 seconds. So, the data is quite huge. We store this data in DynamoDB.

Depending on the client, we show some charts, etc. as well.

Storing is a valuable feature. We can store data as an entire object rather than the traditional structure of the data.

Accessing speed is very fast. We have never faced any problems accessing the data.

It is stable, scalable, and easy to install.

There are some issues, like if we missed something or somehow were not able to store the data, then it was quite difficult for us to get back that data.

If some data crashed during transmission, then there were no alternate options to recover that packet, to backup, or to re-collect that data for a specific device.

Caching is a problem; it is not there. In DynamoDB, my experience is that it works like a UDP; whatever is lost is gone. There is no other mechanism by which we can re-collect that data.

I would like to see video and audio buffers in DynamoDB. 

I used it for around just three months.

It is a stable solution, in my experience.

We currently have 1000 devices.

Every hour, out of 100 devices, around five devices were missing some data packets. It was not very constant as in similar devices but was at random. On average, five devices were missing data every hour.

The DevOps team was raising the tickets with technical support, but we didn't have any problems with the Amazon side.

The initial setup was very straightforward. Deployment and configuration took about a week.

If it is a real-time system, very specific to the domain, it is a great solution. If it is embedded, has huge data, the frequency is quite high to store that data, and the device is in a remote area or there is no connectivity, then this solution is perfect.

However, if the device is connected through the internet, then it's definitely not a good solution. That is, if it is connected to the internet and proper connections are there, then this solution will not be not feasible.

If I were to rate this solution, I would rate it at six on a scale from one to ten.

I am currently using it for proof of concept and testing out its capabilities. We are publishing the IoT data on DynamoDB. We have its latest version.

Its scalability is really good. I can go up to a petabyte of data. It is more of an on-demand use case. I can go from 100 MB to 1 PB if I want, which is very good. Most of the other databases would want you to stick to a specific data allocation. 

Its subscription cost is lower than similar databases offered by other vendors.

Currently, there is no option for a scheduled refresh in this solution. We want the data to be populated into DynamoDB on a timely basis. Currently, you have to go to the DynamoDB table and hit the refresh button to populate it with the new data. If you have connected DynamoDB to a BI application for creating visualizations with charts, graphs, or other things, you would want it to get updated as per the schedule so that you have updated visualizations in your BI application.

We have been using AWS for close to one and a half years, and we have been using DynamoDB for 45 to 60 days.

It is stable. It is meeting our requirements. In fact, it is way better than what I expected. It is doing more than what I need.

Its scalability is really good. I can go as low as 100 MB and as high as 1 PB.

I didn't run into any issues, so I didn't need any support. The forums and documentation that Amazon provides are pretty much self-explanatory.

We were using another service called Amazon RDS for our data requirements. RDS is not as quick as DynamoDB, but it is not meant to be as quick as DynamoDB. RDS has its own use case, so they are not comparable. They have different use cases. We are switching to DynamoDB because our use case changed.

It is pretty straightforward. It is as simple as it can be. You do need to know what sort of data you have, which is a minimum requirement. After you get that in, everything is very much simple. You don't even need to go through a tutorial. It is that fast.

It is being done in-house, but as our client base grows, we might end up switching to a consultant.

Its subscription cost is lower than similar databases offered by other vendors.

I would recommend this solution based on the use case. It is pretty straightforward, and we haven't had any major issues. It is just plug-and-play. There is nothing else that you need to do.

I would rate Amazon DynamoDB an eight out of ten.

The design approach of DynamoDB makes it very fast and scalable.

We have used most of the features offered by DynamoDB because the product is mature and they fit very well.

They are planning to introduce versioning in the future (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/DynamoDBMapper.OptimisticLocking.html).

The application runs much faster and the query response time is three to five times faster when compared to Google Datastore.

The admin console is also very user friendly and provides hands-on features for the development team.

It provides good support for local development.

• The documentation could be refined to explain some basic topics better.
• The local DynamoDB version doesn't come with a tool to view the items inside the tables, so a third-party licensed product is required.
• An API to make the creation of complex queries with filters, limits, and offsets much easier is something to consider for future releases.
• Some things must be implemented manually and that takes a lot of time. At the same time, they are offered within the API in other NoSQL solutions.
• There is room for improvement of how the indexes are handled.
• An automated tool for increasing and decreasing the read/write capacity based on alarms would be welcomed.

We have been using the product for around six months.

There have been no stability issues. It works very well so far.

The design is based on key-value and offers great scalability and speed.

We have been using paid technical support during the development phase. I would give technical support a rating of 9/10.

They respond very fast and give good solutions, but sometimes they realize that it is a bug in the product and can't tell you when it will be fixed.

We used Google Datastore, but we switched to DynamoDB because we migrated to AWS.

The initial setup was straightforward.

Pricing is more complex than buying a license, so it depends on the products' needs.

We evaluated Microsoft Azure as a cloud solution, but in the end, we decided to go with AWS.

If you want a very fast NoSQL database, and you are willing to do some extra work in order to implement complex queries, DynamoDB is the way to go.

I use the solution for connecting API services with databases. At our company, Amazon DynamoDB is being used for data normalization and to configure JSON objects. 

The features of JSON documents and query handling of databases are vital features of the solution. 

The response time for data queries should be less than a second. The queried data is not required in normalization for parameter queries, password queries, or data that can be used frequently. 

It would be beneficial if the product can be made open source. 

I have been using Amazon DynamoDB for three years. 

The product is stable. 

The solution is highly scalable. 

I found the initial setup to be straightforward. I work with the graphic console and recently have been working with the APIs and queries of the Enterprise Command Line.

The ROI depends on how Amazon DynamoDB is integrated with other solutions. 

Amazon DynamoDB is an expensive product. 

I recommend that others use Amazon DynamoDB, but the expenditure must be calculated beforehand. I would rate the product an eight out of ten.