I’ve written previously about both Amazon Aurora and DynamoDB, and the massive price difference between them. To recap, with some back of the envelope calculations, based on the limited Aurora information available, DynamoDB was found to be 28 times more costly. At that point it becomes worthwhile to look at alternatives. So here’s one alternative:… Continue reading Amazon Aurora Performance, as a NoSQL store
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The economic scalability of DynamoDB
I’ve been using DynamoDB for a few months now after re-architecting a system which started becoming painful to scale on a traditional RDBMS system. The problem wasn’t necessarily read/write performance but rather the total storage space needed as a lot of “unstructured” blobs was stored in the DB. DynamoDB gives me a care free setup… Continue reading The economic scalability of DynamoDB