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Amazon DynamoDB
Fully managed NoSQL database with millisecond latency at any scale
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Scalability
very high
Performance
very high
Learning Curve
moderate
Maturity
mature
Languages: Any via SDK
Architecture: key-value, document-store, cloud
When to Use
- +Serverless architectures
- +Unpredictable workloads
- +Need auto-scaling
- +AWS-native stack
When Not to Use
- -Complex queries required
- -Multi-cloud strategy
- -Strong consistency critical across regions
Strengths
- Auto-scaling
- Single-digit millisecond latency
- Zero maintenance
- Global tables
- Event-driven architecture
Weaknesses
- AWS lock-in
- Complex pricing
- Limited query flexibility
- No joins
Operations
Maintenance
low
Monitoring
low
Backup/Recovery
simple
Hosting: managed
Quick Facts
- Category
- Database
- License
- commercial
- Pricing
- usage based (free tier)
- Community
- very large
- Docs Quality
- excellent
- Trend
- growing
- Vendor Lock-in
- high
- Data Portability
- difficult
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
startupsmallmediumlargeenterprise
Use Cases
- Serverless applications
- Mobile backends
- Gaming leaderboards
- IoT data
- Session storage
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