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Amazon DynamoDB System Properties

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

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Score	75.91
Rank	#15	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#3	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

Developer

Amazon

Initial release

2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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Recent citations in the news

AWS DNS error hits DynamoDB, causing problems for multiple services and customers
20 October 2025, Network World

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15 August 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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21 October 2025, theregister.com

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25 September 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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