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Pierre GOUDJO
December 30, 2021
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DynamoDB
Explaining the architecture of AWS DynamoDB
Pierre GOUDJO
December 30, 2021
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DynamoDB Pierre Goudjo Exploration of a NoSQL database
What is DynamoDB?
Amazon DynamoDB Developer Documentation Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed
NoSQL database service that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability
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Let’s dive in a little bit
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that
provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that
provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability
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There is no server to manage on DynamoDB
NOT REALLY
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that
provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that
provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability
A NoSQL database is a datastore that doesn’t follow the
relational model introduced by Edgar F. Codd in 1970
NoRel would have been a more appropriate name
So what’s the relational model?
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TABLE
TABLE Row
TABLE Row Column
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Relational Databases also offer ACID guarantees
NoSQL defines what the database is not
NoSQL comes in multiple flavours
Key-Value databases
Document-oriented databases
Wide column databases
Graph databases
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that
provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that
provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed wide- column database service
that provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability
DynamoDB is sometimes referred as a document database
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What problem DymamoDB is trying to solve?
2004
Amazon is experiencing massive outages because their Oracle database could
not keep up with the load on the website
People couldn't fill up their shopping cart
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They notice however that most data access where done via
primary key
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Let’s write a database
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They solved their write contention problem by eschewing the traditional
relational model
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Let’s see how these ideas translate in DynamoDB components and
architecture
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10GB
10GB
O(1) 10GB
What to do if I need access via customerID?
What to do if I need access via customerID? I
would need to “switch” primary key.
What to do if I need access via customerID? I
would need to “switch” primary key. Indexes come to the rescue
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What to do if I need customer orders sorted by
TotalPrice?
What to do if I need customer orders sorted by
TotalPrice? I would need to “switch” sort key
What to do if I need customer orders sorted by
TotalPrice? I would need to “switch” sort key Local indexes come in handy
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Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that
provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that
provides fast and predictable performance with seamless scalability
Recap
Single-item actions • PutItem • GetItem • UpdateItem • DeleteItem
Actions
Multi-item actions • BatchWriteAPI • BatchReadAPI • Query • Scan
Actions
Transactions • TransactGetItems • TransactWriteItems Actions
Extras
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
DynamoDB Global Tables
DynamoDB Streams Use cases ✴Data aggregation ✴Replication ✴Archiving/Auditing ✴Reporting ✴Noti
fi cations/Messaging ✴Search
And a lot more • Incremental backup/Restore • Point-in-time recovery
• PartiQL • Encryption at rest • Transactions • Item TTL
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