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# Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Reviews & Product Details

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## Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

### Perceived Cost

$$$$$

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## User Insights

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faizan s.

Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/20/2022

"Super fast and fully managed Dynamo DB"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)?

DAX is a NoSQL database service that is fully automated. With the introduction of DAX, the speed increases tenfold. It has an in-memory catch system that enhance the speed of the default dynamo DB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)?

While old Dynamo DB has to use an external catching feature the DAX made catching simple. With lower latency and lowering the cost. so all in all I didn't find any thing bad about DAX. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX):

I would say instead of implementing external catching services like elastic search go for DAX it is fast, efficient and inexpensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) solving and how is that benefiting you?

While working on my startup ATRIS we used to save transcripts of MOM of meetings. We had implemented Dynamodb and had faced some latency issues. We plan to implement elasticache but then we find DAX and it simply works amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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lakhan p.

Solution Delivery Consultant

Management Consulting

Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"Massivly scalable and reliable"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)?

Reliability, replication scalability and performance. If you already have basic understanding of No sql databases you will find the apis easy to understand and would be very confident on predicting actual performance of your table based on read/write capacity units. However With new feature of dynamic capacity., the effort of figuring out right capacity also goes away. I have found a ver Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)?

For someone who don't know how noSQL database works, may find its architecture little difficult to understand.Having a Sql interface would help for the people like those.Which i believe is there but not properly documented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX):

NA Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have a massive regisrty of custom resources and services and corresponding user level access privileges. with dynamodb this has become easily searchable. using this we have created our own highly scalable authorizer service at an enterprise level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Benyamin D.

DevOps manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/27/2018

"Dynamodb accelerator"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)?

the best thing about DAX is that it's a transparent cache layer. it's not a traditional side-cache. which means that it does not have any coherency issues as usual, and that is great. also the fact that it is fully managed is great of course. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)?

I probably dislike mostly the price which can get very high when dealing with high volumes of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) solving and how is that benefiting you?

obviously speed and performance. we experienced some issues due to faster performance of some of our applications then the responses of the dynamodb database. caching mostly solved it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Eugene B.

Owner

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/8/2019

"very easy to scale"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)?

Very easy to scale and deploy. Good fit for MVP, which can potentially get a lot of traffic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)?

You got tied up to their solution and it is not easy to switch from it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX):

If you are searching DB solution for MVP or a simple application, it is a good fit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ability to quickly implement a database for an application that can be easily scaled in case of a lot of sudden spike of traffic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

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"When Not To Use"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)?

Reducing the latency for Reads for GPS data coming from our app Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)?

Over all expense. The tool does not allow for us to run a most cost effectice cluster while getting the network needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Latency on accessing data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/29/2018

"DAX makes it easy to maintain and operate Dynamo DB"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)?

I like that it's easy to configure in production, and that it needs little oversight for our use case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)?

Getting DAX set up locally can take a bit of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) solving and how is that benefiting you?

DAX can help us operate our dynamoDB instances easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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