Amazon DynamoDB - Choosing an AWS NoSQL Database

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Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service. Some key capabilities of DynamoDB include:

  • High performance — Designed to provide single-digit millisecond latency for read and write operations at any scale.

  • Scalability — The ability to automatically scale throughput capacity in response to demand, so you can start small and scale as needed.

  • Flexibility — Supports both document and key-value data models, and provides rich data types such as lists and maps, making it easy to store any type of data.

  • Durability — Provides consistent, single-digit millisecond performance for read and write operations, even in the face of hardware failures.

  • Global tables — DynamoDB global tables provides multi-Region data replication which makes it easy to build globally distributed applications.

  • Integrations — Integration with other AWS services such as AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon DynamoDB Streams, and Amazon Kinesis, making it easy to build serverless and data-driven applications. Amazon DynamoDB integrates with Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights to provide information about the most accessed and throttled items in a table or index. DynamoDB delivers this information to you using CloudWatch Contributor Insights rules, reports, and graphs of report data.