Question: Is DynamoDB a memory store?
Answered by Rafal Wilinski
Answer
DynamoDB is not a memory store, it is a fully managed NoSQL database service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is designed to provide fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability. DynamoDB uses solid-state drives (SSDs) for data storage, which provides fast access to data and enables the service to handle high request rates.
That being said, DynamoDB has a feature called DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), which is an in-memory cache supplementing DynamoDB tables that delivers fast read performance for your tables at scale by enabling you to use a fully managed in-memory cache.
Other Common DynamoDB FAQ (with Answers)
- Can we store list in DynamoDB?
- Can a DynamoDB range key be a GSI key?
- How to count rows in DynamoDB?
- Is DynamoDB SQL or NoSQL?
- How do you store JSON on DynamoDB?
- Do I need a middleware for DynamoDB?
- Can glue write to DynamoDB?
- Is DynamoDB cost effective?
- How to dump multiple DynamoDB tables?
- Is DynamoDB PaaS or SaaS?
- Why is DynamoDB better than MongoDB?
- How to divert the traffic from S3 to DynamoDB?
- How do parallelize requests in DynamoDB?
- How to store Japanese characters in DynamoDB?
- How to access DynamoDB from outside?
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