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What's the concern for lock-in here - how difficult with DynamoDB be to migrate away from? Amazon seems to be increasingly catching the App Engine Syndrome, tho
by bconway 15y ago
What's the concern for lock-in here - how difficult with DynamoDB be to migrate away from? Amazon seems to be increasingly catching the App Engine Syndrome, though to be fair, it's been mostly network traffic-style functionality in the past.
- pacala 15y agoIn Simple Hash Key mode, it is just a key-value store. All the logic is in your app and/or supporting libraries, not in your DBMS. In Composite Hash Key mode you also get limited range queries. These are supported by any DBMS that indexes its primary key via BTrees. DynamoDB is cutting the features to the bone. This makes it easy to migrate out of DynamoDB and, at a first glance, hard to migrate into DynamoDB. Particularly hard to migrate from a RDBMS with complex schema/index/trigger support. The beauty of it is that complex features can be built as libraries as the needs arise. The next five years look very exciting. Hats off to Amazon.
- latch 15y agoLock-in? You'll need to get all your data out and transform it into whatever alternative you pick. I'd say as far as AWS lock-in, this is on the low side of things.
- justinsb 15y agoThe lock-in comes not from the data format, but rather from the quirks of the particular system du jour: API lock-in.
- foobarbazetc 15y agoGetting your data out will also cost you a boat load of money. Same as putting it in.
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