Amazon DynamoDB

AWS's serverless key-value and document database, with single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.

Category
database engine
Developer
Amazon Web Services
Created by
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First release
2012
License
Proprietary
Open source
No
Pricing
Paid
Website
https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb
Written in
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Data model
Key-value, Document
Storage layout
Document
Workload
Transactions (OLTP)
Analytics architecture
Not an analytics platform
Query language
DynamoDB API, PartiQL
ACID transactions
Yes
Schema
Flexible
Deployment
Managed cloud
Scaling
Natively distributed
Create, read, update, delete
Create: fast (Scales writes by partition); Read: moderate (Fast by key, scans are slow and costly); Update: fast (Atomic updates and counters); Delete: fast (Deletes by key, expiry by time)

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