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Ask HN: Is anyone using Amazon DynamoDB?
It seems interesting, is used by Amazon in production and just had its price significantly reduced. Can anyone give some real world usage info? Thanks!
- webdevtom 14y agoThis blog post came out this week. http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2013/03/dynamodb-one-year-later.html http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2013/03/dynamodb-one-yea... We prototyped some stuff with it at Lytro but didn't release the functionality. There is a bit of a learning curve to it. You really need to understand what you want to use it for before you start creating things with it.
- jedberg 14y agoI just used it. I needed to do some analysis on Netflix streaming data (about 700 million rows in my dataset). I had a bunch of text files that are basically logs, so I wrote a parer that injected or updated each row in DynamoDB and then put a queue item into an SQS queue to process that row if it was new (since the same ID could show up in any number of log files). After the initial parsing I ran the other script to do the actual work by sucking items off the queue and processing the rows, which at that point had a column for each log line for that ID.
- manidoraisamy 14y agoI found it very constraining. It was good as an "enhanced" key-value store. But, if you planning to use it like a regular database, you would need SCAN, that scans the entire table: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9206424/scan-on-key-attribute-in-dynamodb http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9206424/scan-on-key-attri...