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Re:The DynamoDB Book: Data Modeling with NoSQL and DynamoDB by outworlder on Friday May 15, 2020 @08:10PM (#23199048)
> - It provides rich types with some odd limitations: strings, sets, lists, and binaries do not allow empty values.

That is _infuriating_

It's documented, but it is so surprising when you first hit it. Sometimes, empty values have semantics attached to them, I don't want to scrub them out.

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Re:The DynamoDB Book: Data Modeling with NoSQL and DynamoDB by Aeolun on Saturday May 16, 2020 @08:30AM (#23202862)
I think that basically describes DDB in a nutshell. You think it’s like Mongo, only on AWS, but then you slowly find out it’s much, much worse (for most use cases that you’d go with Mongo).
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