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Fenil Patel
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AWS Dynamodb

Dynamodb is database service provide by AWS

It support NOSQL data format similar as JSON data file .

dynamodb store data as an item in table format

and each item inside the table is store as an object form as Key - value pair

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Dynamodb is SERVERLESS

advantages of Dynamodb

*1. Automatically Scaling *

*Scaling up *

  • When your web application have so much traffic it will increase the capacity of web application to handle all the request

*Scaling down *

  • when your web application don't have such traffic then it will decrease the capacity to handle the request

*2. Pay only for compute *

  • compare to Traditional server this cloud service will so much cost effective for using in proper way

Steps to follow on AWS platform

  1. Create Table
  2. by using table name according to your application need

  3. set the partition key

  4. it also called as unique key , use for identifying items in table or use to differentiate items

After creating table

  • you can add items inside the table ,
    in the item first you need to add partition key (unique key) after that you can add other data also such as your name , address in string format

  • after adding items inside of the table you can see it in items collection

  • It helps to save money from unuse or un compute time

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Timescale – the developer's data platform for modern apps, built on PostgreSQL

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