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ACID Transactions Amazon DynamoDB Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB MongoDB
December 17, 2018
by Sid Choudhury

Why are NoSQL Databases Becoming Transactional?

The NoSQL database revolution started with the publication of the Google BigTable and Amazon Dynamo papers in 2006 and 2007 respectively. These original designs focused on horizontal write scalability without compromising the performance observed in the single node databases dominant at that time. The compromises instead came either in the form of eventual consistency (i.e. inability to read the last update) or loss of multi-key access patterns (such as SQL integrity/foreign key constraints,

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Amazon DynamoDB Amazon Web Services
December 6, 2018
by Sid Choudhury

AWS re:Invent 2018 Recap – The Freedom to Build

Team YugaByte was at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas last week. While AWS was announcing a flurry of new product releases and existing product updates, we had some excellent deep dive conversations at our booth on the future of transactional databases and how YugaByte DB is playing its part in shaping that future. This post summarizes our key learnings from the conference,

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How DynamoDB’s Pricing Works, Gets Expensive Quickly and the Best Alternatives

DynamoDB is AWS’s NoSQL alternative to Cassandra, primarily marketed to mid-sized and large enterprises. The uses cases best suited for DynamoDB include those that require a flexible data model, reliable performance, and the automatic scaling of throughput capacity. DynamoDB’s landing page points out that mobile, web, gaming, ad tech, and IoT are all good application types for DynamoDB.

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Amazon DynamoDB Amazon Web Services
July 18, 2018
by Jimmy Guerrero

11 Things You Wish You Knew Before Starting with DynamoDB

DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database offered by Amazon Web Services. While it works great for smaller scale applications, the limitations it poses in the context of larger scale applications are not well understood. This post aims to help developers and operations engineers understand the precise strengths and weaknesses of DynamoDB, especially when it powers a complex large-scale application.

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Amazon DynamoDB Amazon Web Services
July 10, 2018
by Karthik Ranganathan

DynamoDB vs MongoDB vs Cassandra for Fast Growing Geo-Distributed Apps

Amazon DynamoDB is a popular NoSQL database choice for mid-to-large enterprises. In this post, we look beyond Amazon’s marketing claims to explore how well DynamoDB satisfies the core technical requirements of fast growing geo-distributed apps with low latency reads, a common use case found in today’s enterprises. We examine the development, operational and financial consequences of working around the limitations of DynamoDB when attempting to “force-fit” for this use case.

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Amazon DynamoDB Apache Cassandra MongoDB
July 10, 2018
by Karthik Ranganathan