Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB


Amazon Web Services proprietary NoSQL database. Is a natural pairing with Lambda. Very interesting history, DynamoDB is homegrown at Amazon. 

Pinned Links

DynamoDB Home Page (website link)
→ The DynamoDB home page.
→ website link
Amazon's Internal Dynamo Paper 2007 (blog post link)
→ AWS blog post about their Dynamo internal paper in 2007
→ blog post link

Article Links

You Should Always Use DynamoDB Global Tables Now
→ AWS introduced the global tables resource to CloudFormation mid-May 2021
Everything you need to know about DynamoDB Partitions
→ Good article, and also YT vid, from Alex.
Amazon DynamoDB: Pointer Strategy
→ Strategy for last index number.
Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive
→ The story of one of the world’s fastest database in a human-friendly format
DynamoDB Keys - Everything You Need To Know
→ Nice summary of DynamoDB keys

Blog Post Links

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now enables you to import and automatically populate sample data to help build and visualize your data models
→ NoSQL Workbench for DynamoDB now helps you import and automatically populate sample data to help build and visualize your data models.

Video Links

AWS re:Invent 2019: Amazon DynamoDB deep dive: Advanced design patterns (DAT403-R1)
→ re:Invent 2019 DynamoDB deep dive: Advanced design patterns
AWS Re:Invent 2019: Data Modeling With Amazon DynamoDB (CMY304)
→ AWS re:Invent 2019 session where Alex DeBrie reviews key principles of modeling your DynamoDB tables.