Question: Does DynamoDB support atomic updates?

Answered by Rafal Wilinski
Answer
Yes, DynamoDB supports atomic updates. Atomic updates ensure that multiple updates to a single item are performed in a single operation and are either all applied or none are applied. This allows for consistent and reliable updates to data without the need for additional locking or synchronization mechanisms.
DynamoDB provides several atomic update operations, such as increment and append, that allow users to perform these updates on individual attributes of an item.With TransactGetItems
and TransactWriteItems
you can read/write up to 100 items per transaction.
Other Common DynamoDB FAQ (with Answers)
- How many DynamoDB tables can I have at a maximum?
- Is DynamoDB good for unstructured data?
- Can we pass objects as an item in DynamoDB?
- Is DynamoDB highly available?
- Is DynamoDB SQL or NoSQL?
- What is DynamoDB used for?
- Can DynamoDB store relational data?
- Does DynamoDB Support SQL?
- Is DynamoDB open source?
- Is DynamoDB PaaS or SaaS?
- How to create an index in DynamoDB? (how to create an index in dynamodb)
- Can you store XML in DynamoDB?
- Is DynamoDB stateless?
- Is DynamoDB table region specific?
- Is DynamoDB serverless?
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