DynamoDB FAQ - Top 138 DynamoDB Questions Answered

Top DynamoDB FAQ is a compilation of frequently asked questions about Amazon DynamoDB along with an answer for each of them.

• What is DynamoDB used for?
• Does DynamoDB Support SQL?
• Is DynamoDB serverless?
• Is DynamoDB highly available?
• Is DynamoDB columnar database?
• Can DynamoDB store relational data?
• Does DynamoDB support atomic updates?
• Which AWS regions support DynamoDB?
• Is DynamoDB a memory store?
• When to use DynamoDB?
• Is DynamoDB SQL or NoSQL?
• Is DynamoDB document-based?
• Is DynamoDB a relational database?
• What type of database is DynamoDB?
• How is data stored in DynamoDB?
• How resilient is DynamoDB?
• Is DynamoDB good for unstructured data?
• Is DynamoDB good for analytics?
• Is DynamoDB NoSQL?
• What are the naming conventions in DynamoDB?
• How to enable DynamoDB monitoring?
• Is DynamoDB a key-value store?
• Is DynamoDB open source?
• Is DynamoDB certification worth it?
• Is DynamoDB ACID compliant?
• What are the best alternatives to DynamoDB?
• Does DynamoDB have read replicas?
• In DynamoDB, can I use UUID as the partition key?
• How to create an index in DynamoDB? (how to create an index in dynamodb)
• Is DynamoDB HIPAA compliant?
• Can colons and special characters be used in DynamoDB attributes?
• Is DynamoDB PaaS or SaaS?
• Does Amazon DynamoDB store healthcare data?
• Is DynamoDB table region specific?
• Can you store XML in DynamoDB?
• Is DynamoDB stateless?
• Is DynamoDB based on MongoDB?
• Is DynamoDB similar to MongoDB?
• Why is DynamoDB better than MongoDB?
• Are DynamoDB table names supposed to be unique?
• Can a DynamoDB range key be a GSI key?
• Is DynamoDB multi-region?
• What is DynamoDB white paper, and what are the key takeaways?
• How to connect to DynamoDB?
• Is DynamoDB a wide-column store?
• Is DynamoDB expensive?
• Can Power BI connect to DynamoDB?
• Can QuickSight read DynamoDB?
• Can Django use DynamoDB?
• Can DynamoDB be replicated?
• Can we pass objects as an item in DynamoDB?
• Can DynamoDB have null values?
• Can DynamoDB have nested objects?
• Can DynamoDB run on Mac OS?
• Are DynamoDB tables globally unique?
• Can DynamoDB have duplicates?
• Can DynamoDB have multiple tables?
• Can DynamoDB store documents?
• Can DynamoDB store images?
• Can DynamoDB trigger AWS Lambda?
• Can DynamoDB trigger AWS Step Functions?
• Can firehose write to DynamoDB?
• Can glue write to DynamoDB?
• Can we store list in DynamoDB?
• Can we rename DynamoDB table?
• Can Tableau connect to DynamoDB?
• Does Alexa use DynamoDB?
• Does DynamoDB support cross-region replication?
• Can I add DynamoDB to my full-stack application?
• Can DynamoDB be used like a relational database?
• Can DynamoDB table have adhoc attributes?
• How to import data from S3 to DynamoDB?
• How to access DynamoDB from EC2?
• Do I need a middleware for DynamoDB?
• How many DynamoDB tables can I have at a maximum?
• How to grab data from AWS DynamoDB?
• How to divert the traffic from S3 to DynamoDB?
• Why is Single-Table-Design popular in DynamoDB?
• Is DynamoDB real-time?
• Is DynamoDB cost effective?
• Why must table be empty to enable DynamoDB global tables?
• Will I be charged for DynamoDB is it is inactive?
• What is the maximum number of partitions in DynamoDB?
• How to track changes to items in DynamoDB?
• Should you make a new DynamoDB client for each request?
• How to tell if DynamoDB initialized correctly?
• Is connection pooling needed for DynamoDB?
• Does DynamoDB charge for storage?
• How to write a test case for mocking DynamoDB?
• How to write complex queries for a DynamoDB table?
• How to store location coordinates in DynamoDB?
• How to store Japanese characters in DynamoDB?
• How to store graphs in DynamoDB?
• How to ensure delete integrity in DynamoDB?
• How to forcefully delete a DynamoDB table?
• How to dump multiple DynamoDB tables?
• How to count rows in DynamoDB?
• How to access DynamoDB from Android Studio?
• How to access DynamoDB from Apache Storm?
• How to access DynamoDB from Apache Hive?
• How to access DynamoDB from outside?
• How do parallelize requests in DynamoDB?
• How does DynamoDB handle data changes?
• How do you store JSON on DynamoDB?
• Does sharding affect DynamoDB reads?
• Does DynamoDB have triggers?
• What is the access pattern in DynamoDB?
• Can I add another region to global DynamoDB?
• Does DynamoDB support load balancing?
• Does DynamoDB support Multi-AZ?
• Does DynamoDB support nesting data?
• Does DynamoDB support read replicas?
• How do you enable cloudtrail for DynamoDB?
• How do I create an id in DynamoDB?
• Is DynamoDB a backend database?
• Is DynamoDB a managed service?
• Is DynamoDB OLTP or OLAP?
• What does the DynamoDB query return?
• Why is DynamoDB bad?
• Is DynamoDB the same as Redshift?
• How to handle empty strings in DynamoDB?
• How many secondary indexes are allowed per table DynamoDB?
• Are DynamoDB table names globally unique?
• What does DynamoDB support?
• Does DynamoDB have tables?
• Can DynamoDB store blob data?
• Can DynamoDB do aggregations?
• Why is AWS DynamoDB charging me?
• Why is DynamoDB easy to partition?
• Why is DynamoDB so expensive?
• Who invented DynamoDB?
• Who owns DynamoDB?
• Which programming language works best with DynamoDB?
• What language is DynamoDB written in?
• What kind of database is DynamoDB?
• Is LSI automatically created on DynamoDB?
• Is it possible to make a DynamoDB table case insensitive?
• Is DynamoDB distributed?