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Tim Bart edited this page May 30, 2014 · 1 revision

DynamoDB

Quick reminder about dynamoDB:

  1. Throughput (writes & reads /sec) is pre-allocated.
  2. Writing is 5x more expensive than reading
  3. There is no auto-scaling
  4. It’s faaaaaast.
  5. Querying it can be tricky.
  6. The Java API is pretty terrible.