Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) Reviews & Product Details

DynamoDB is already very easy to use and fast enough for applications. But DAX has improved this to a whole new level. It is in-memory cache and flexible to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have not found anything I do not like now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

speed is very good. easy to use for smaller project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

there is nothing that I dislike about this product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that it is another form of DB that resides on the cloud and that management of it from the backend is dealt with by AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike the fact that it does not bode well with DR schematics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DynamoDB DAX is good for applications that need a very low latency to their datastore - not having to manage the cache layer is awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DAX is good and does what it promises very well IMO. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

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

The seamless integration with the codebase and publishing in maven - dax sdk Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The wait time for the sdk updates to get into maven Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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.

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

Amazon DynamoDB is already fantastic for NoSQL database use. I use it for many applications. DAX is great for tables that are hit a lot, which is great for scaling where your table may be perhaps hitting a lot of scans or queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While not a dislike of DAX persay, it does cost some more in addition to your other DynamoDB costs on a per hour basis. So, it can drive up costs a little bit- depending on one's settings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.