Question: Is DynamoDB good for analytics?
Answered by Rafal Wilinski
Answer
It is true that because you cannot run arbitrary queries against DynamoDB tables (technically speaking you can but it's extremely inefficient due to Scan nature), you cannot perform ad-hoc reports of your data. That might be disappointing. However, there are solutions to that:
- You can stream your data from DynamoDB to Redshift or some other relational database built for reporting and analytics purposes
- You can build aggregation functions on your own. These functions plugged to the DynamoDB Streams will be automatically recalculating your composite statistics or rollups providing always the most up-to-date state of some aggregate.
Other Common DynamoDB FAQ (with Answers)
- Can DynamoDB have null values?
- Can DynamoDB store documents?
- What is DynamoDB white paper, and what are the key takeaways?
- How to connect to DynamoDB?
- Can DynamoDB be replicated?
- Does DynamoDB Support SQL?
- Can DynamoDB trigger AWS Lambda?
- Can we store list in DynamoDB?
- How to enable DynamoDB monitoring?
- What type of database is DynamoDB?
- Is DynamoDB highly available?
- How to import data from S3 to DynamoDB?
- Can firehose write to DynamoDB?
- Is DynamoDB good for unstructured data?
- Can QuickSight read DynamoDB?
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