--- title: Amazon DynamoDB Reviews meta_title: 'Amazon DynamoDB Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 529 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Amazon DynamoDB works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 529 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: NoSQL Databases url: https://www.g2.com/categories/nosql-databases --- # Amazon DynamoDB Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Document Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/document-databases) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 529 ## About Amazon DynamoDB Amazon DynamoDB is a pioneering NoSQL, fully managed, serverless database with limitless scalability and single-digit millisecond latency performance enabling customers to develop modern, microservice-based applications through a simple API. Customers enjoy the benefits of DynamoDB’s fully-managed service including broad compliance standards, security integration with AWS Identity and Access Management and numerous disaster recovery services. With DynamoDB Global Tables, customers have a 99.999% highly available, multi-Region, multi-active database supporting local reads and writes for globally distributed users. DynamoDB provides cost management features such as scale-to-zero, Time to Live (TTL) for aging data out, and multiple pricing models including a free tier. ## Amazon DynamoDB Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **exceptional scalability** of Amazon DynamoDB, allowing performance consistency during varying application demands. (11 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Amazon DynamoDB, enjoying its fully managed, high-performance capabilities with minimal maintenance. (8 reviews) - Users appreciate the **cost efficiency** of Amazon DynamoDB, saving time and reducing operational overhead significantly. (5 reviews) - Users appreciate the **low-latency performance** of Amazon DynamoDB, making it ideal for high-traffic applications. (5 reviews) - Users appreciate the **fully managed services** of Amazon DynamoDB, which minimize maintenance and enhance operational efficiency. (5 reviews) - Users value the **high performance and low latency** of DynamoDB, ensuring rapid response times even during heavy load. (5 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy integrations** of Amazon DynamoDB, enhancing their experience with seamless connections to other AWS services. (4 reviews) - Users appreciate the **seamless integration** capabilities of DynamoDB, simplifying the adoption of AWS solutions without hassle. (4 reviews) - Users appreciate the **scalability and real-time capabilities** of DynamoDB, which enhance performance and flexibility for developers. (3 reviews) - Users value the **flexible data model** of DynamoDB, making it easy to adapt during development. (3 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Amazon DynamoDB to be **expensive** due to unpredictable costs and the need for careful capacity planning. (9 reviews) - Users struggle with **query complexity** , facing challenges in cost management and performance optimization when using DynamoDB. (7 reviews) - Users find **Amazon DynamoDB complex** for beginners, requiring extensive learning for effective data modeling and management. (5 reviews) - Users find the **steep learning curve** of Amazon DynamoDB challenging, especially in data modeling and querying limitations. (5 reviews) - Users face **cost management challenges** with DynamoDB, requiring constant vigilance to avoid unexpected expenses. (3 reviews) - Users face a **difficult learning curve** with DynamoDB, requiring careful data organization and understanding of its NoSQL principles. (3 reviews) - Performance Issues (3 reviews) - Unclear Pricing (3 reviews) - Users face **complex configuration challenges** that complicate data management and efficiency in Amazon DynamoDB. (2 reviews) - Complex Data Modeling (2 reviews) ## Amazon DynamoDB Reviews ### 1. Dynamo DB Performance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ali A. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** We need a database where we stage the data and use it in our ongoing transaction, In RDS sometimes the query was too expensive in performance point of view, AWS Dynamo DB's performance is excellent. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** As the database grows there is a hike in cost. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** If you are looking for no sql high performance scale able DB. Then Dynamo is best **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are 100 of 1000 requests on our application and we need to stage some data, In RDS performance was compromising. On experimental bases we started to use the Dynamo, It is excellent. ### 2. Dynamo db fast easy to use database **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** It's very easy to learn and easy to putt data to database **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** it's very difficult to fetch inserted data from database. ie, fetching is slower than insertion **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** try to improve your speed **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** i am using for my data mining projects ### 3. Amazing experience. Very easy to understand and implement using SDK. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** The SDK is very easy and there is alot of help available. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Nothing. Everything is perfect and ready to use. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Its great and easy to implement with very brief documentation. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am Using dynamo DB to save IOT devices info and users info of my IOT base app ### 4. Best DB of nosql **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Storing a JSON object in string is easy, **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Create the headers in ui, but it's good to create with code **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** No need to define table relationship, it just store id corresponding ### 5. Great performance even with large scale applications **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Dairy | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Support great reliability and scalability while supporting ACID transactions. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** It need a proper monitory. DynomoDB did not support different region backup. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Support great reliability and scalability while supporting ACID transactions. ### 6. Amazon Dynamo DB is best database In market. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** The features which it provides, like, metrics, capacity, alarm, triggers, backup , access control etc... **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Capacity features has provisioned, which is free tier and allows less records to insert at particular rate. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** It's a good database which provides lots of features wtr other databases, at feasible rate. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are changing our in house database to Amazon cloud Dynamo DB database. ### 7. Dynamo db **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cemil B. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** it's no SQL database like SQL database allows you query. And you can design schemes easily. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Notting for now. it seems there is no.problem at all. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** it is auto-scalable. ### 8. Amazing DB experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Amazon Dynamo DB is very easy to use. We use it to store all our different sites information in a table with different details for each site. One thing that I like about the dynamo DB is the item detail retrieval time is very less. This helps improve the performance of the API services we have in our environment. We have some time sensitive applications and Dynamo DB helps to keep the data queries to as minimal as possible. All the data in the Dynamo DB can be encrypted which helps get easy approval form our Security team. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Based on the usage in our environment, I have not come across anything that I would dislike about the Dynamo DB. We have seen the difference when we use a SQL based DB and the dynamo DB. Dynamo DB is always the better DB among the NoSql DB. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** I could not think of any other recommendations for the dynamo DB. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** All our network services are exposed through an Amazon API gateway. So every time someone wants to use our API services, they call the API and each API call is stored as a job in our Dynamo DB. This Job id is provided to the client and they can check the status of the API by doing a get on the Job ID. Apart from storing these Job ID, we create multiple sites in our transit environment. These sites are stored in the Dynamo DB table with lot of details regarding the site. One big benefit, I have seen is we do not have a manage DB server in order to run the above services in our environment. All the data inside the DB is also encrypted which another adde benefit. ### 9. A good option for non-relational database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarika M. | Group Lead, Financial Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Amazon DynamoDB is offered as part of AWS services. It is particularly of interest if you are looking for a non-relational database. It is used very often when you do not have the complete picture sorted out about the columns or values or how many variables are going to be there. It is basically a database where you can define the table name, partition, and Index and get started. You do not have to worry about Metadata or anything which you need in relational databases. Another reason for adapting this is because it works with almost all the AWS services like Lamda, API gateway, S3, etc. Since JSON is a major component of the tool, it integrates very well with web projects where speed is the key factor. You do not need to worry about the scalability of this product. You can just keep entering your data and it will automatically keep scaling without compromising on the query speed. Security and Availability are also amongst the best because it is backed by amazon of course. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Although storing unstructured data is the main purpose of this database, but once the data gets massive and you need to make a query. then it is not very efficient because there aren't many relations between the key/value pairs. You need to go through proper documentation to understand what it is capable of and if required taken few sessions from the Amazon tech team as well for the same. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** The search for a non-relational database ends here. If you are already using AWS services then this could be a perfect fit for you and integrate perfectly with your already existing services. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We always felt the need for a database where you can just start storing the data and figure out the details as we move along the project. Amazon DynamoDB has just done that for us. It has integrated so well with Amazon API Gateway and we were already using JSON as the main language which further helped to fasten the query process and decrease the response time and increased the performance significantly. We never had any complaints of data breach or hack because Amazon takes care of that with its highest level of sophisticated security and makes sure that the data is always available 24*7. ### 10. Managed NoSQL Heaven **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Zero management of the underlying resources that power the database INCLUDING seamless auto-scaling to handle load ta a given time. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Some of the documentation is somewhat lacking, it can be difficult to build a good mental model of how everything works together, and how you might design a given table for a dataset **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** logging of important security and event data. ### 11. It's easy to integrate and fast **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Trigger on record expiry is one of the cool feature **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** I would say read write cost is high compare to other no sql database **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Use it wisely.Understand cost of read write and tune settings as per your need to reduce cost **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was storing secret tokens for 24 hours.Expiry and KMS security helped me. ### 12. Good experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Performance and scalability did it for me **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Nothing i could think of but i wil say pricing is little steep **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used it with personal project where MySQL db was inefficient ### 13. NoSQL database combined with AWS Ecosystem **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bharat s. | Senior Manager, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Amazon DynamoDB is quite simply a non-relational database as a service offered by Amazon or you can also say, it is a NoSQL database. The best part is that it doesn't require any installation or server or any kind of preordered hardware. Getting started on it is really simple, all you need to do is put down a table name and start assigning key/value pair to the table. The Scalability and availability are other top features of this service. It never goes down and you can increase or decrease the number of reads and writes based on your project needs. The Security offered by Amazon is top-notch and you can choose the latest algorithm which you want to apply to protect your real-time data as well. The benefit of using NoSQL is that you can store semi-structured to unstructured data as well and the data can grow as much as it wants because Amazon scales very well without giving any issues while doing so. It supports JSON and there it is a perfect fit for web development and building new web pages with amazing data transfer speeds. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Amazon DynamoDB is really helpful in certain situations, but you need to be very careful while opting for this because the cost of querying is relatively higher and if you want to query on regular basis then this might not be a good fit. Second writing complex queries can be a nightmare, and you need good developers who have prior knowledge and experience to write scripts for the same. The Joins are also not supported in this service which is a major issue of concern if you are used to applying joins on data in an SQL environment. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** If you are looking for a NoSQL solution which doesn't require any installation, serverless, high availability and scalability and integrates with your existing AWS ecosystem and provides super-fast data transfer speed with top-notch security then this is the right product for you. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Amazon DynamoDB has benefited us in various ways. First is obviously the cost factor because we did not have to purchase everything in advance by guessing how much will be required throughout the project. The scalability, availability, and performance have been second to none. The security offered by Amazon is superb and our clients are also very much happy with that. The speeds of data transfer are amazing and that results in faster response time and almost zero lag. ### 14. Perfect NoSQL database solution for AWS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Morgan G. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** AWS DynomoDB is great for NoSQL database. It is a native AWS service that provide NoSQL service. I like it easy to set up, and to manage. You can create a table very easily and simply add key/value pair to a table. AWS is providing the service, not the product. That said, you do not have to worry about data durability. You just tell AWS what data you want to store and it will take care of the rest including security, scaling. Like RDS is the relational database service not the product. It has good price. You do not pay a lot using DynomoDb. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** I have not found anything I do not like for now. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** If you want to use NoSQL service but do not want to host a server, try DynamoDB. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** When you need NoSQL service and do not want to host a database server. ### 15. Review For Amazon Dynamo DB **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Apurv P. | Apurv Parekh, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Amazon Dynamo DB is non relational database which is very reliable and scales really well. It support json format and can be used with any other Amazon Service. Amazon Dynamo DB is very easy to integrate with Amazon AWS Lamada and AWS API Gateway. It can be used with AWS IOT to store the data collected from the device. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Amazon DynamoDB does not backup your data for free. Use has to write script for this. Querying data to DynamoDB is very limited. Joins are not supported by DynamoDB. It is deployable only on AWS, not on individual machine and server. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Amazon DynamoDB is good choice if one is ok to put your data on AWS. It is very simple to use, flexible and can be triggered with AWS Lamada **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used Amazon DynamoDB with AWS IOT. We read the Temperature data from ESP32 and DHT11 sensor and upload the data Dynamo DB ### 16. Non-relational database, scalable performance **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** It's very easy to integrate DynamoDB with any other AWS service that you may be using. Service is automatically replicated across multiple AWS availability zones, this way the data is protected from any malfunction that may cause loss and it also ensures high uptime. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** You only have once instance. If you want to group tables into a database, you cannot. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Store massive amounts of data, and index storage for our distributed cloud platform. ### 17. DynamoDB **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Amazon dynamoDB Was used wildly in origination. It have many feature like automatic backup, global replication **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** No proper tutorial for dynamoDB. Amazon can arrange free training on dynamoDB **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Yes **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used amazon dynamoDB to store my serverless application status ### 18. Best choice for NoSQL storage **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jaime Ignacio M. | Software Development Manager, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** DynamoDb is non relational database where you don't need to thinking in clustering, scaling and any other administrative hardware related task. You only need to provide the capacity of reading and writing () over a primary o secundary index. DynamoDb is designed to interact with a lot of AWS resources, like Lambda, ApiGateway, S3, and more. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Our business required a quickly response to the changes on reading capacity. Although DynamoDb has a self-provisioning characteristic, sometimes it is not fast enough to adjust to our needs. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** You need to take care about all the reading and writing access patterns in order to provide a good design at least for the primary (partition) and secundary (ordering) keys. Unfortunately DynamoDb do not allow changing this properties after build a table. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have using DynamoDB for complex entities models where there are a lot child levels of related information, mainly for our main Digital Signage solution. In some scenarios it has been used too for storing post-processing data-lake results (but there are better approach for this). ### 19. Best fit noSQL solution for AWS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Well integrate with other AWS services such as EC2, S3, Lamba... special on authentication and limit access. DynamoDB is very easy to start, just a few clicks to create a table, index. Dynamo DB SDK and CLI are simple but good enough for the developer. DynamoDB also provide very good performance and its price is quite cheap when we use in the correct way **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** We need to reply on Partition and Key to retrieve data, it does not support a powerful query language for retrieve, summary or count data..., use additional key are costly and reduce performance. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Use DynamoDB when we need a DB with simple query language and need to integrate with other AWS services **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use DynamoDB to store our data for applications which deploy on EC2 and Lambda, it is very effective on performance and limits user access base on role, we also store the index for big data which store in S3. ### 20. A great transient key-value store **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** umer r. | Senior Director of Engineering, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Dynomadb is easy to get started with for prototyping. I really also really like how it handles sharding and partitioning for you. By and far though, Dynamodb streams are the best feature of dynamo. I no long have to worry about scalability of sql triggers in large relational tables. The ability to hook other aws services into streams is awesome. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Indexing in dynamodb isn't very pratical. I have to either generate a random partition key for indexing, which then I have to store somewhere or I run into hot partitions. This makes dynamo a non-viable solution to replace all other document stores. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I built a general purpose replacement for quartz based scheduler. Dynamo served the role of a trigger firing mechanism, with dynamo streams guarenteeing that events were fired only once. ### 21. great storage and retrieval time **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** michael p. | Director of IT, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** DynamoDB is relatively easy to start up, it has a table name and a partition key which help you get started. With a speedy environment, it has the ability to store a lot of information and has with fast retrieval time. It easily integrates with web products using JSON but is not limited to JSON. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** It doesn’t quite do what a production environment can so it is limited int his respect. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Because of the series lack of a production environment, I was only able to use it to obtain large sums of stored information quickly. ### 22. NoSQL **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Srdjan P. | Front-end developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** For me, three very important things: Scaling, scaling and scaling: D With AWS Lambda, DynamoDB is the best NoSQL DB. The best price / quality ratio. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Is not easy to implement. AWS DynamoDB panel for show db item, search items and insert is complicated. Populate functions are missing **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We should not worry about scaling ### 23. Fast Data access for a known use case **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacob L. | Big Data Engineer, Entertainment, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Query speed is amazingly fast, Very easy to develop around (A simple client in Java/Python can be developed in a few days), easy to tune read and write capacity units. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** No ability to see number of partitions any given table has, this makes it hard to find hotspots and problems with a data model. Hard to develop models for all use cases. The cost for our use case was extremely expensive. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Make sure the use cases are all known up front, Dynamo supports a max of 5 GSIs per table and if additional requirements/query criteria are added later on there is no built in support. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storing customer events as documents for query-ability by our customer service teams. ### 24. Powerful Non-Relational Database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anthony P. | Manager of IT and Security, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** The scaling capabilities are suburb! You pay for your write and read capacity units and can scale easily by setting triggers on read/write consumption. Queries are incredibly fast and useful for storing meta data about items (a good example might be object location in S3). **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Can be a bit annoying to upload lots of data at once due to the write capacity units. You need to jack it up very high to run a script with a loop. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wanted to store tags to certain files that contained information such as name, location, and some other meta data so we could create dynamic content within our webpages. ### 25. Absolutely My Favorite **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chaokuan L. | Sr. Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Simplicity and performance. Once you get your schema designed right, the table can grow from 10's of RCU/WCU to 10's of thousands with minimal intervention. It's getting even powerful with new features like PITR, Global Replication. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** 1. Global table replication works on empty tables only, for now 2. No online schema change **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Read the manuals first, check the deep dives on DynamoDB on Youtube before designing your schema. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** KV data access. As long as the primary key gives enough cardinality, the performance and scalability would be great. It also hooks into AppSync which provides GraphQL interface to the rest of our stack. ### 26. Amazon DynamoDB Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Darun J. | AWS Glue Review, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** DynamoDB offers great reliable performance. It also offers a quick and easy connection between other AWS components. Lowest latency amongst other cloud nonrelational database services. It is highly useful for developers building serverless applications **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** The latency increases when storage exceeds 10Gb data. It divides them into chunks and spread across different partitions. This could be disadvantageous for developers working with large datasets. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** When working in AWS environment this NoSQL database service provides quick and reliable performance with scalability **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I stored the SQL queries in DynamoDB and retrieved them from Lambda. This proved to be faster than having all the SQL queries in the Lambda itself. This reduced the latency in building the product ### 27. The most scalable database till date **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ujjwal A. | SDE II, Internet, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** The best thing I love about DynamoDB is its scalability and availability. On peak, we send more than 80K of TPS to DDB and it have always been resilient to handle the traffic. Also, the flexivbility to adjust the read and write capacity od DDB is amazing. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** The fact that there's not yet any fast way to migrate my data from relational database to DDB is a thing I miss. More export and import features in DDB is the thing I'd like to see. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We store customer's data and their search history in DDB. ### 28. Who doesn't love an easy to use maganed key value store? **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew H. | Principle Engineer - Enterprise Platforms, Sporting Goods, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** It's super easy to get DynamoDB securely integrated into a new or existing application. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Some of the constraints are too strict in 2018. The size limits for a "row" of data is the worst. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Be mindful of the size restrictions. Like a lot of AWS it can be unecssarily expensive when careless. A few rare situations make it expensive no matter what. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** key value stores are great for applications that have high write and single index reads. lots of business solutions can use this. retail transactions, data discovery, logistics tracking, manufacturing status etc... ### 29. Great DBaaS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jade N. | Senior Member of Technical Staff, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Autoscaling, rapid lookups for known partition and sort keys, global table replication, backup and restore, encryption at rest. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** I should be able to convert an existing table to a global table. Backup and Restore should work with Global Tables. Keep Gov Cloud DynamoDB up to date with commercial regions. Scaling up/down can be quicker. 400KB per row limit is too low **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Make sure you set up encryption/replication from the get-go as backfilling/conversions are costly and need t be done manually. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storing entries for fast lookup as a K-V pair. ### 30. Premium, Scalable Database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2019 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Dynamo is the leader in document based storage. It prides itself on dependability and scalability. One of the coolest features is the ability to set a table to auto-scale itself. While you need to be aware of the nuances included in this feature, it is likely that you can automatically gain significant savings on your tables with 1-2 clicks. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Many can't complain about DynamoDB. If you are not aware of the speed and advantages that it provides, it will seem very costly to use. This is not a viable solution for hobbyists looking for a free database. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Read how autoscaling works. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** High-scaled distributed systems. ### 31. DynamoDB is conditionally great! **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Performance and availability. This product is great if your data needs to highly available and you know a little bit about your data when accessing it ( great when searching for single items by primary index). **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Not so great when trying to access potentially lengthy lists of records by multiple indexes. Auto scaling for indexes which are particually spikey can be costly. Costs are created from either additional dev time to manage throttling or more expensive (potentially wasteful) R/W throughput minimums. All of these negative aspects go away if your company has lots of money to spend on a DB.. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use dynamoDB to manage the state of our application. Seems to scale well with usage ### 32. My experience with Dynaml for data collection and storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Dynamo for quick and efficient data collection has been very useful. We use it for an app developer somewhat recently. We like how consisted and reliable the system is. It's been really easy to use and navioas well **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** I wish there was an option that allowed us to download data automatically at the same time everyday instead of us having to go in and download it manually. It would save us a lot of time and worry. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have been using this to collect data within an app we developed. It has been working well so far and we always receive help when we ask for it. We haven't run into any big problems so that's good. ### 33. dynamoDB is a super simple DB to create and maintain **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** The ability to create and maintain via the aws console is super convenient **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** It lacks some of the configuration and tooling that larger DBs have (postgres, oracle) **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** we use dynamoDB to store settings for several of our scheduled tasks. For example, we have a lambda that runs hourly and either spins down or spins up ec2 instances based on settings saved in DynamoDB ### 34. Simple, stable, document store **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Dynamodb is very simple to spin up and get going, and requires little setup, especially if your application doesn't need the columner storage of redshift, nor the relational data store of rds. I generally look to use dynamodb db first for applications that don't have complex requirements, and need fast response times. The streams are also very helpful as an event driven entrypoint. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** I've had issues with burst blowing through the provisioned throughput. While we handle this in the application, I still think the autoscaling could kick in faster. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly storing inbound emails, and using dynamodb streams to trigger downstream event flows. ### 35. Making things easier for the client developer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Augie P. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** The thing I like most about DynamoDB is the abilityfor a client developer to immediately be able to create scalable backend datastores, integrate with them, and not require a server engineer. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Periodically I run into issues with migration. This might be an data archietture issue but sometimes it feels like I"m fighting with Dynamo. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating apps that benefit children and the aging population. ### 36. this is ____ing awesome **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Greg B. | CTO, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** We've been able to run massive DB that was previously in mysql on dynamodb with minimal provisioning and it's just plain easier to deal with. Much much faster. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** nothing, it does exactly what you'd expect. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** if you don't need a relationship DB stop using mysql for the love of chicken fingers **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** document db/key value stores taken out of mysql and put into ddb. ### 37. NoSQL **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashish R. | Data engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Great NoSQL db. Its consistent and Partition tolerant. Also can be configure for high availablility. Scales well. integrates smoothly with kinesis and S3, and other useful services. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Expensive to use when payload is not huge. Should make it attractive for medium data load as well. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its our OLTP system, we stream our data thru Kinesis and dump into Dyna,modb. Supports out Apps ### 38. Amazon DynamoDB **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gerry C. | Principal Database Administrator, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Love that it is managed and serverless. No need to patch. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** It has taken some time to wrap my head around the different way in which you model data (come from a relational background) **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it to capure simple object models that are overly complex in our current relational databaes. Also have realtime dashboard information that is in development ### 39. Great for quick start NOSQL DB **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Very easy to get an instance of Dynamo running, and fairly easy to grasp the basics of how to setup proper keys/range keys. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** More complicated schemas can be hard to fit in the range key paradigm. Think carefully before you assign a range key to a field. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Make sure your need is actually a NOSQL DB before locking yourself into one. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used Dynamo to store chat logs from Slack. It does exactly this. ### 40. Really awesome no-SQL db **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Really low latency and powerful query options. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** There was a bit of a learning curve with secondary indexes. The documentation was clear so I was able to figure it out. I think there was also documentation on how to partition data effectively so there weren't partition throttling issues, but that sort of thing would be nice to not have to worry about. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provides a reliability, elasticity, and performance package that no other noSQL db can match. You do not have to worry about any of these characteristics which is great for DevOps ### 41. Simple But Not! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Easy introduction and transition to a NoSQL database. UI is pretty standard. Scales! Design pattern experts available to you. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** It's still young so best practices & conventions are still in the works to some degree. Managing ACID in the application. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Research into the design patterns that will best fit your use case. Avoid copying the data into the new pattern down the road! **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're able to commit and move code to production quickly by not worrying about a schema. We've setup a simple relational data model with it. ### 42. Could be better **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Scalable with options to add additional indices, LSI, GSI. It is very reliable and completely integrated with Aws. You can specify IOPS and change it later on. It also allows you to set IOPS for other indices. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** You need to define all indices upfront. In case your requirements change, you would need to recreate the table after dumping data back and importing again. Dealing with spikes in IOPS could be a big trouble. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it as NoSql store, where number of records could grow a lot. ### 43. Great performance when capacity is planned right **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** The performance and the simplicity in setting up the tables on dyanmo is the best. Autoscaling configuration can be done with ease. Dynamo combined with DAX is great improvement for performance and also helps in handling cache refreshes. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Needs the capacity to be planned upfront and the autoscaling takes time before it takes into effect which in-meanwhile causes impact to the users. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using as a key/value store for rolling out deals/offers to customers and tracking their redemption. The benefits are realized mostly from performance POV. ### 44. Another NoSQL Option **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bob S. | Co-Founder, President, COO, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** DynamoDB is very easy to get started with, with a table name and a partition key you are on your way to data fun. It is a very fast environment and can be great to store a vast amount of data with very quick retrieval. JSON is a key part of the tool, so it easily integrates with web products. Having different SDKs also allows this product to be integrated into different software/projects with ease. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Because you are limited to a partition and sort key for primary searches, and knowing that scans can take some time to complete, there is a doubt of how production applications will perform. However, this is assuming you are completely moving away from a SQL environment. DynamoDB should be used as a tool, not as a replacement. This being said, it would be nice if it could do everything needed for a production environment. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fast access to large amounts of data. Because it is so fast and easy to get set up, it allows us to try things and store vasts amount of data without jeopardizing our production SQL environments. ### 45. Best NoSQL Database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Melroy D. | Senior Systems Analyst, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Its Auto Scaling features abstract away the management issues regarding having to increase or decrrease capacity. Its triggers also integrate very well with other AWS services **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** The number of indices on a table could have been 10 **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** achieving a true serverless architecture ### 46. Great service but costly at scale. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** RAM S. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** The fast read write functioanality. And good support for multiple connector from spark and kafka. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** At time it causes so much of problem when data scaling happens and its too costly. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** None **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are developing microservices and using it with some high write load. ### 47. Great Stuff **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Drew C. | Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Easy to use and good documentation. Also easy to get running on local machine **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Possible the setting up of alternative indexes **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Doing quick storage in the cloud. Works great and have noticed that develment is so much easier for different environments ### 48. Explore your data **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** A fantastic use for data storage when you need flexibility and don't want to keep updating relational tables. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Vendor lock in, expensive, UI was initially a bit confusing to me, but once I explored a bit (not long) it clicked. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** If you want flexible storage and need persistence while exploring data, DynamoDB is a good choice. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great for PoC for data exploration when I need to pin down exactly what it is I need out of my data. ### 49. Fast DB for key-value **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nipun G. | BI Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** AWS DynamoDB works great for our need, where we need to retrieve a large set of data (by key) **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Dynamo tables can only be scaled (manually) a limited number of times **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Serving data to our consumers at a high-speed. ### 50. Easy to work with **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steven N. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** The ability to start the development process. We don't have to worry about provisioning or schemas in advance **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Cannot change a table from non-global-table to be a global-table later **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use DynamoDB to model all of our data models ## Amazon DynamoDB Discussions - [how do i create a amazon dynamodb table locally?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-i-create-a-amazon-dynamodb-table-locally) - 2 comments, 2 upvotes - [What is the most complex usage of dynamodb?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/32345-what-is-the-most-complex-usage-of-dynamodb) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [What kind of database is DynamoDB?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-kind-of-database-is-dynamodb) - 1 comment - [What is AWS DynamoDB based on?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-aws-dynamodb-based-on) - 1 comment - [Which of the following is a feature of DynamoDB?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-of-the-following-is-a-feature-of-dynamodb) - 3 comments - [View Amazon DynamoDB pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-web-services-aws-amazon-dynamodb/reviews?page=9§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-24+05%3A26%3A35+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=9507957a-3261-44d2-98da-c1eea2da1e27&secure%5Btoken%5D=77945a293267a6acf5e3a4896c55e9c93fcdac4123e15c65ad190d8a144571ad&format=llm_user) ## Amazon DynamoDB Integrations - [Amazon API Gateway](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-api-gateway/reviews) - [Amazon Athena](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-athena/reviews) - [Amazon CloudWatch](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-cloudwatch/reviews) - [Amazon EC2](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-ec2/reviews) - [Amazon Lightsail](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-lightsail/reviews) - [Amazon QuickSight](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-quicksight/reviews) - [Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-simple-notification-service-sns/reviews) - [Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-simple-queue-service-sqs/reviews) - [AWS Lambda](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-lambda/reviews) - [AWS Step Functions](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-step-functions/reviews) - [Node.js](https://www.g2.com/products/node-js/reviews) ## Amazon DynamoDB Features **Data Management** - Data Model - Data Types **Data Management** - Data Model - Data Types - Built - In Search - Event Triggers **Configuration** - Application Performance - Orchestration - Database Monitoring - Anomaly Detection - Network Security **Availability** - Auto Sharding - Auto Recovery - Data Replication **Availability** - Auto Sharding - Auto Recovery - Data Replication **Database Administration** - Provisioning - Governance - Auditing **Performance ** - Integrated Cache **Performance** - Query Optimization **Availability** - Scalability - Backup - Archiving - Indexing **Security** - Data Masking - Authentication And Single Sign-On - Data Anonymization **Security** - Role-Based Authorization - Authentication - Audit Logs - Encryption **Security** - Role-Based Authorization - Authentication - Audit Logs - Encryption **Data Management** - Data Replication - Advanced Data Analytics **Support** - Multi-Model - Operating Systems **Support** - Multi-Model - Operating Systems - BI Connectors **Database Features** - Storage - Availability - Stability - Scalability - Security - Data Manipulation - Query Language ## Top Amazon DynamoDB Alternatives - [Couchbase](https://www.g2.com/products/couchbase/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (143 reviews) - [Azure Cosmos DB](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-cosmos-db/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (59 reviews) - [MongoDB Atlas](https://www.g2.com/products/mongodb-atlas/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (848 reviews)