AWS DynamoDB console alternative:
Dynobase

Name: Dynobase
Author: Dynobase

Dynobase is a desktop DynamoDB client for working across AWS profiles, Regions, and local endpoints. Use tabs, bulk edits, item diffs, and scan controls alongside the AWS console for service administration.

Dynobase 3.0 table workspace with demo data

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Available for macOS, Linux and Windows

Where Dynobase fits beside the AWS console

Comparing more options? Our DynamoDB GUI comparison includes the AWS console, with platforms, prices, and limitations for each tool.

Explore observed data shapes

Inspect attributes from loaded data and use the schema explorer for nested paths, mixed types, and missing values. Sampling describes observed items, not every possible item in the table.

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Generate application and infrastructure code

Generate snippets for supported data operations and CDK, CloudFormation, or Terraform for table definitions. The console also offers Console-to-Code; choose the workflow that fits your project.

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Generate application and infrastructure code

Review generated application code

Choose a supported code-generation target, review its imports and request parameters, and test the result against your application’s SDK version before using it.

Search across profiles and Regions

Load local AWS profiles, including SSO and assumed-role profiles. Search included profiles and loaded Regions, load additional Regions when needed, and open tables in separate tabs.

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Choose visual filters, raw parameters, or PartiQL

Inspect native DynamoDB request parameters or use PartiQL for reads and writes. The AWS console has its own PartiQL editor; Dynobase keeps these workflows beside your tabs and favorites.

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Choose visual filters, raw parameters, or PartiQL

Import files into existing tables

Map CSV or JSON file data to an existing table and choose conflict handling. AWS managed import from S3 also supports CSV, DynamoDB JSON, and Ion, but creates a new destination table.

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Control scans and inspect results

Review estimated scan cost, stream results, and pause or resume fetching. Nested JSON filters and visual item diffs help inspect the data already loaded.

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Transform loaded results in Terminal

Use JavaScript to map, filter, and aggregate loaded rows. The transformed grid is read-only; explicit calls through the database helper can write, so inspect scripts before running them.

Build reusable queries

Enter key conditions and filters visually. Dynobase uses Query when the conditions support it, otherwise Scan. Filtering a scan does not avoid reading the filtered-out items.

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Save favorites and inspect history

Save parameterized query favorites and review recorded operations and item changes. The console also supports favorite tables; this section describes query reuse and change inspection.

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The console supports item editing, CSV result downloads, PartiQL, vector search, and table administration. These sections describe Dynobase workflows, not a list of missing console features. Screenshots show Dynobase 3.0 with demo data. See the AWS PartiQL documentation and Dynobase features.

Trusted by top DynamoDB experts

I love using Dynobase to explore my tables with a native app rather than going to the AWS console in my browser.

One of my favorite features is the ability to save common queries for simple use later. As you're implementing your data model, I recommend saving queries for each of your application's access patterns to make it easy to debug collections of items later on.

Dynobase is quickly becoming an essential part of working with DynamoDB.

Alex DeBrie, AWS Data Hero

Author of DynamoDBBook.com and DynamoDBGuide.com

Dynobase is by far the most intuitive UI tool I've used for DynamoDB, it's leaps and bounds better than the AWS console and makes it really easy to manage DynamoDB tables in a multi-region, multi-account environment.

It's made my life so much easier and allowed me to focus on the things that actually matter to my clients.

Yan Cui, AWS Serverless Hero

Author of Production-Ready Serverless, Developer Advocate at Lumigo

There are two amazing things about Dynobase.

The first is that it took so long for such a great DynamoDB client to finally arrive and the second is that it was so worth the wait.