Re:I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left
by rowanseymour on Sunday May 10, 2026 @04:32PM
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IMO if you've got a use case that requires querying in so many ways that you need several indexes, then DynamoDB is probably the wrong choice. It excels at stuff like user specific histories that are well partitioned, read back in one way, and ideally can be written asynchronously by a separate writer process.
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Re:I returned to AWS, and was reminded why I left
by andoando on Sunday May 10, 2026 @05:48PM
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At the beginning there was only one query, it got expanded over time with new features. It wasnt well thought out, no.
If you need high scale globally distributed persistent data, uniform distribution of hash reads/writes, dont care for schema, and know your query will remain simple yeah its a fine choice.
I just wouldn't consider it outside of enterprise level