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"DynamoDB uses synchronous replication across multiple data centers for high durability and availability" This does not seem scalable for OLTP type load on som

by FpUser 7y ago

"DynamoDB uses synchronous replication across multiple data centers for high durability and availability" This does not seem scalable for OLTP type load on some busy store. Again I think you'll be way better of money wise hosting your own database on real hardware either on prem or colocated

jrrv 7y ago
DynamoDB is used by Amazon.com. "Across the 48 hours of Prime Day, these sources made 7.11 trillion calls to the DynamoDB API, peaking at 45.4 million requests per second." [1] [1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-prime-day-2019-powered-by-aws/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-prime-day-2019-power...
- FpUser 7y ago
  You're forgetting specifics here and the amount of hardware resources thrown into it. I've already told that I am not discussing here FB/Google/Amazon scale stuff. It is their problem and not shared by more regular deployments
- majewsky 7y ago
  TIL: A day has 48 hours at Amazon.
  - plumeria 7y ago
    The same day across multiple time zones could take 48 hours
    - Archit3ch 7y ago
      Of course Amazon would call that an Elastic Sundial.