--- 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. Best cloud computing platform to deploy the services **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Its amazing speed and ease to access the platform to build and deploy **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** there is nothing to be desliked. amazing solution for carious problem **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** now i can able to deploy my services without thinking of infrastructure. ### 2. It have alot of features as compared to MySQL **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** It's transaction handling. I has alot of features **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Currently I has all the feature needed for a software development so it has nothing to dislike **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple query ### 3. Its great No SQL DB. though its No SQL, you van query it **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Data availability. Scalability. Though it actually is JSON data formate in back but aws provide facility to query it. we can create indexes too. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** We can provide primary key only in where condition. It would have beed great if we allowed to filter data for non primary key **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Its great no sql DB. high availability of data. But make sure your requirement doesn't need any relational data. Highly recommended for kay value type data Store. I think Its not ideal for huge data with lot of filter criteria **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** To maintain the list of permanent bounce/invalid email addresses identified by SES in our system. we can easily access this data from our cloud machines so we can ignore these emails to send an email to maintainin good score on AWS SES ### 4. Best for small enterprises **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** The one which I like the most is the sort key & primary key options. I appreciate a few of its features like scanning & querying options, Trigger options.. etc. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** DynamoDb is suitable to small level enterprises. When we use dynamo for large level enterprises, we should go with RDS. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Forming sort key littraly difficult one and irreversable. Dynamo is all about its initial structure. But it is helpful for our product and it gives more productivity. ### 5. Best performance and economical **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manikant G. | Big Data Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Auto scalability, easy access and connectivity, best in class supports. Solution derivin Documentation. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Connectivity with Spark connection with batch update and barch connections. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Because of quick access with adhoc script and commands its easy to consume data from DB. We used real-time fetch and targeting system. ### 6. Experience with Dynamo db **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Scalability for high traffic system and query results time **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** To deal with transactions and locking mechanism. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having read and run-time scaling for high traffic and managed service ### 7. Its very easy to use schema less arch **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** It is schema less with many powerful feature **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Documentation is bit difficult to understand **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** To store data on cloud tables ### 8. Very likely to recommend friends and colleagues **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Super cache performance Faster query execution Lower memory usage Lower cpu usage Lower network bandwidth High computation Low maintenance Easy to monitor Easy to maintain **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Nothing till date All things are up to date Memory usage is low Cache performance is great Network bandwidth is good Cpu is well maintained Easy to monitor All is well **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Realtime analytics is needed in the adtech industry so we are using the dynamo db to catch the realtime impression and clisk and the conversion happening in the real world scenario ### 9. Dynabo DB Review, reliable database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Performance and Scalability and data management **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Table Joins, Triggers and limited queries management **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps building enterprise applications. ### 10. Dynamodb **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Dynamo is great for NoSQL databases, it has the advantages of a single table, where we can save a lot of money table. Even it's a little tricky to form a single table, it's very useful for large data. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Documentation for the dynamo is not that much clear, querying has its limitations, where I used Django for SQL DB. I felt a little bit tough while querying in dynamo. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used it for no SQL data, It's has python support also(pynamo DB), where you can find easy to query, DB performance is increased after using dynamo DB, storing data became easy for no SQL data, where we can put hash key and range key whichever combination we want, we can store and query data easily. ### 11. Too Fast and scalable **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Latency and availablity and scalable and resilience **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Nothing much all good with the service provider **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Search is quite fast and high availability. ### 12. It's will useful for storing date (Format can be anything) **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sumita G. | Software Developer , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** store structure and non-structure data Manage access control Achieve zero downtime handle more load (using scaling functionality ) **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** There are no specific issues. Clients prefer dyanomicDb to a database management system (DBMS). The query structure is complex. Traction management is very stuff to handle. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Archive better performance as compared to DBMS. Able to store a large amount of data. Data analytic would be easy. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Zero-Downtime Access control Scaling Backup able to store a large amount of data. able to deploy on cloud Billable is based on your usage. ### 13. Amazon DynamoDB review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** High availability Databases. It is NoSQL **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Complex structure, difficult to understand. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving the databse availability issue and the read replicas allow faster reads. ### 14. Amazon DynamoDB review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** scalability, readiness, throughput, operations easiness **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** charge maybe but it depends on the type of requirements **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** very helpful for microservice-based applications, DB operations also made easy ### 15. fast and predictable performance with great scalability **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chirag M. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** don't have to worry about hardware provisioning, setup and configuration, replication **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Querying data is extremely limited. Can not install on individual desktop **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage of inconsistent schema items ### 16. Awesome NOSQL type database with great documentation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Utkarsh P. | Software developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** I liked the documentation. It is extensive and covers almost all aspects of things one should know to get started with. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Understanding the cost of resources can be difficult to understand **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Just study about the pricing policies because that is the only part which is kind of under the hood thing about the service rest everything is thorough and easy to understand **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it as the primary database for storing IoT applications specific data because costing for large volume of data is less compared to other services. Yes ### 17. Dynamodb is fast and only having some issue in querying without knowing primary key **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Visakh C. | Associate Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Dynamodb is fast and easy to setup. It's scalable and easy to connect with AWS services **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Data accessing difficult without primary key **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Chat based system storage and some IOT related data ### 18. Best in use. Frequnt access and backup **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akshay D. | Cloud Operations Administrator CXOne, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Auto backup of log. Live replication and other important feature. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Still not found any problem but session time out must be increase **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Use of DDB is much easy best db yo use **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use to build software we used it. ### 19. One of the Greatest NO-SQL DB **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Doolitha S. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Compared to some other DB's, Dynamo DB was easy to configure and use. I also like its performance, and I also don't have to worry too much about security. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** I have not faced issues during my usage, so there is nothing to mention here and dislike for me. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used it for the places I need a non-relational database. My use cases needed scalability, and Amazon DynamoDB had it. ### 20. Good **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Being a self managed service, it is easy to access and operate via Amazon provided Java client. Ability to store large volume of data and availability is a very good feature. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Since it is a http call to the service the network delay and if there are any message failure we need to handle it explicitly in code. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storing metadata of our application and a back up for all the messages that are delivered through our application ### 21. Goes well with the upcoming serverless stack, highly scalable and can handle huge datasets. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Highly scalable, can be maintained easily as part of the AWS architecture. Easy to set up. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Expensive and there is no support for joins. Documentation can be better too. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** If you want to avoid having a DevOps person for scaling, using DynamoDB can be a great option with serverless. It can be expensive so that needs to be considered as well. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using DynamoDB at my workplace, we are using serverless and lambdas so it is easy to integrate with DynamoDB. Automatic scaling is a big pro. ### 22. Great upload network **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** The storage was relevan enough to meet the needs **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Nothing to comment. Everything works fine **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Nothing. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing the data storage. ### 23. Dynamo DB is life saver for bulk data ! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Parag T. | Software Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Dynamo DB is no-sql database very helpful in building applications that have data in bulk, support and triggers for other AWS services makes it more awesome to use. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Only thing I dislike was the transaction support as it is required if 2-3 querys are running simontaniously and we want to synchronise them. It kinda make it hectic to support it. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had to make a secondary db other than out primary DB so we used Dynamo DB. It is beniifiting us in terms of fast read operations and better API performance. ### 24. Excellent! NoSQL DB, go for it **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raviraj P. | Senior Frontend Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Ease of use, simple to integrate and has SDKs for almost any language **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Doesn't have in-memory operations cabilibilty **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using DynamoDB as noSQL solution, and it is reasonably priced ### 25. Dynamo db **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raghwendra N. | Lead Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Very scalabale non relational database. Pay as you go **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** There is none that I dislike about dynabo db **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Please give it a chance **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storing metadata table on Dynabo db for objects stored in s3 ### 26. DyanmoDB review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** TTL is the best thing in dyanmodb as my data was getting deleted timely according to the timestamp I set up. i was able to verify the expired data, **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** The costing is a bit high on ubuntu or Linux based systems. $0.112 was the charge I think, but it was from my company expenses so as per a developer ut doesn't really matter. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well, since its a NoSql based system so it was to code and fetched the data from the database. And since I had static files such as documents, mainly pdf or png so I thought it is easy to learn and code ### 27. Good product and customer care services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen P. | Full stack developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Larger and powerful scaling Good maintenance **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Nothing like that and less downtime deployment **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Use and explore the benifits **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Good benefits when we use in production server ### 28. Awesome fully managed NoSql database service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gokula A. | Senior AWS & DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** It offers high scalability for high performance based applications. And also it is automated most of the bottleneck points **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** It doesn't support joins. There is a limitation in querying data **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scalability, performance, no need to maintain it. ### 29. One of the best DB available in AWS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sai Teja K. | Data Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Automatically manages the data traffic of tables of multiple servers and maintains performances. Allows creation of database tables that can store and retrieve any amount of data. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Deployable only on AWS and cannot be installed on individual desktops and servers. No triggers. Querying data is extremely limited. No triggers. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** It has better performance and scalability. High availability and Durability **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Access to control rules. Performance and Scalability. Time to live. It automatically spreads the data and traffic for your tables over a sufficient number of servers to handle your storage requirements. ### 30. DynamoDB user review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Being serverless and nosql. can handle the load efficiently. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** cost is little high if the tables are used too much **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** sparse data and adding attributes dynamically on the go, as the application matures. ### 31. Easy to use and we'll documented **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashish M. | Associate Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Easy to setup Well documented Simple querying **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Index are challenging Ties you with AWS infrastructure **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scalable data storage Zero maintenance ### 32. High performance key value store for any scale **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Easy to set up with few clicks and the time to live is super fast at any scale **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Non-cloud version is not available for development environments **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** One of the best key-value store for easy to set up with the shortest time to live for any scale **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it for storing daily snapshots of crypto market data ### 33. Good No-SQL DB With Analytics **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Naitik K. | software developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** I like some features like scalability , achiving, authorization, backup, and auditing. Pay based on data usages. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** No specific crons. infra is not under our control. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Implement cloud-native architecture with Zero-downtime (provide support scalability and back up) **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using this Db, We achive replication concept. Implement primary and secondary (sync mutiple regions db at) Db Concept in microservice enviroment. restrore is easy in failure case. ### 34. Good option for Nosql database use case **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** No sql database , read /writer are pretty faster, dynamo streams are pretty good for data history capture requirements, back up and recovery options are great, over all pretty good performance **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Dynamo api partial updates are little complicated and won't cover 100% scenarios, doesn't support some key ids as names for table attribute names **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** For Unstructuctural schema where we want to store objects in the form of jsons dynamo was pretty good option with greatest performance, strong and eventual consistent mechanisms are great and can be used as per usecases and price structure ### 35. Amazon DynamoDB is a great service to get up and running with a reliable and scalable NoSQL DB. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raj C. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** The ease of scaling up and down, within and across AWS region. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Amazon DynamoDB is an AWS specific service and can't be deployed on on-prem servers **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** It's a ready to user service and good to go ahead with. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Amazon DynamoDB has a server less architecture which helps is storing unstrcuctured data without manually increasing the size of DB regardless of the change in amount of data. ### 36. I would **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** The scalability and the efficiency that it provides and at the same time new and needed functionalities **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** I didn't find anything that I didn't like **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using dynamo db as a full time db for our new developments and migrating the old one to new one. ### 37. Best NOSQL Solution by AWS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishnu G. | Senior Backend Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** I liked the saclability of Amazon DynamoDB **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** The thing I didn't like is the inability to do DB joins **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Whoever looking for using Amazon DynamoDB should check the pros and cons of it and check with your requirements **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving user analytics plus bookmarking problems with DynamoDB. The #1 benefit we realized is scalability. ### 38. Amazon DynamoDB **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Ease of Availability and setup of DynamoDB helps to scale and restore it up whenever required. Using it to store Doc data types and provides high security in comparison to MongoDB **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Limitations of Datatypes which can be stored namely like datetype, thus adding a layer of transformation before storage. More advanced tuning and controls can he provided to users **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Have used AmazonDB for storing realtime info coming from various IOT devices. It helps in ease of management as the infrastructure maintenance is low thus less dev time on it. ### 39. Amazon dynamo db **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** The best part is that it offers NoSQL, so no need yo worry about tables and columns and other tiring things to bootstrap your products. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Accidental data getting corrupt as there is no proper schema. But that is not a serious problem if dealt eith seriously. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Speed is great ### 40. Very well documented and easy to pick up **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Very well documented and easy to pick up. It is swift, and it integrates well with all other amazon web services. The documentation was extremely lengthy and fit all my use cases. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Query the data is limited in dynamo DB followed by the joins, which are practically impossible in dynamo DB. The cherry on top is deployable on AWS only and not personal desktops. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** None **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maintaining a database for my web application where I specifically store all user-related data, Dynamo DB provided an easy look up for user-related data. The flexible schema benefitted for storing our unstructured data. ### 41. Elegant and Obscure NoSQL in DynamoDB **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** 1. Horizontal Scaling (This takes a load off Ops activities) 2. Automatic sharding 3. Virtually Infinite scaling - it scales better than SQL **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** The query apis takes some time to wrap you head around, and documentation needs to get better **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Teams generally waste a lot of time in ops activities for traditional databases. With dynamodb, you can cut back on a lot of man-hours. ### 42. Dynamo db **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Scalibity, robustness and ease of use of dynamodb **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Limited scope of query and joins since it's no sql db **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** I would suggest to do a small poc and comparison between multiple availabile options as per your use case and choose one which fits best **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Majorly as an inmemory and persistence datastore ### 43. Review of Dynamo DB **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anil B. | Assistant Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Experience the ease, Reliability, In built security, backup and restore. Also find suitable for mobile, web, gaming and IoT applications **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Table joins are not possible, No triggers, No foreign key concepts, No server side scripts **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Machine learning problems also dynamo db is best for the applications that need a flexible NoSQL db with low read and write latencies. ### 44. Dynamo DB Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vignesh R. | Software Engineer III, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** It is easy to access. It is secured and scalable. It has great community to help. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** The cost of Dynamo DB is too expensive than other premium dbs. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** I used in multiple projects. It is really helpful in scaling users. It is very fast than the traditional db which we used in our project. ### 45. Dynamo DB **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek K. | Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** DynamoDB is great to use because of it's serverlwss feature. I love the interface provided by Amazon to interact with dynamodb with clean Ui. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** I am very happy with Dynamodb. Have very good investment **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to store transaction related information and manging db sessions related to transactions ### 46. IT is not of the best in market. Only advantage smoothless AWS integration **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Seamless AWS integration. Reliability Wrappers such as Global Dynamo Table **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Limits on Queries. False results for count on paginations. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Make sure to confirm that it meets your use case. Atleast review the APIs available **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our team heavily relies on AWS services such as lambda and Kinesis. DynamoDB is our go to service for any NO SQL DB. ### 47. Fully managed, Serverless, key-value NoSQL database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** It is so cheap, highly available, and scalable. Dynamo streams provide a way to capture the events and processes in our way. Milli-second latency can be achieved by DAX. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** Cannot do ad-hoc queries as a traditional database. It has a steep learning curve. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost-Effectiveness, Storing data in multi regions seamlessly, achieving mill-second latency, highly distributed. ### 48. Amazing Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2022 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** Speedy execution of queries and easy to scale **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** UI can be improved to provide a better user experience **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scaling the database to big cohort of user, easy to work and fast to scale ### 49. Great choice for NoSQL DB with serverless architecture **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** The database is cloud based and fully managed. Its reliable performance and flexible data model make it an ideal fit for many applications. It allows you to develop applications with unlimited storage and throughput. You can store petabyte of data. It is more of an on-demand use case as such is very cost effective as well. It's highly scalebale. You can make full backups of all your data instantly without impacting the performance of your tables. DynamoDB guarantees availability with a service level agreement (SLA). Dynamo is being used across various industy leader like Netflix, Samsung, Tinder, Adobe, Airbnb and Swiggy. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** The query structure seems to be a bit complicated in multiple use cases. There is a learning curve for those who are not familiar with non rational databases.Handling burst write remains an issue as scale out dosen't instantly. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We replaced certain MySql use cases with Dynamo. Some of this use cases were based on persisting configuration. This move was very economical as well. ### 50. Best NoSQL solution with key-value support provided by industry leader AWS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Amazon DynamoDB?** The best thing about DynamoDB is the simplicity setting up. **What do you dislike about Amazon DynamoDB?** One thing I dislike about DynamoDB is it's very hard to predict the costs involved and thus adds unpredictability to the overall bill. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon DynamoDB:** Please clearly define and understand your requirements and then check with DynamoDB's features and shortcomings. There will obviously be some tradeoffs, If you find a balance between those, go for it. **What problems is Amazon DynamoDB solving and how is that benefiting you?** We started using DynamoDB to back our proprietary voice recognition service and the benefits we realized are better scalability. ## 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=7§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-29+08%3A24%3A16+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=4da108bb-6296-4b28-9220-01e5a55bfdf3&secure%5Btoken%5D=d735fe33ab9ac629aa4a4cce17888b015b0067ea557fdcbbaf358d87ceb952cc&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)