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0 pointsabd126y ago0 comments

I can understand the sentiment and don't fault you for it.

That said, I think you can definitely handle complex, relational patterns in DynamoDB pretty easily. It will take some work to learn new modeling patterns, but it's absolutely doable.

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ignoramous6y ago

At what cost, though? RDBMS do provide a better querying interface with fewer pitfalls that invariably one encounters trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.

That said, I've seen people use DynamoDB as a timeseries database (modelling multi-dimensonal data with z-indices on top of the two dimensional partition-key and range-key pair), so it is definitely possible to be clever and practical at the same time.

Disclaimer: ex-AWS.

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