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Dynamodb Adjacency List Design Pattern

I have been looking at some of the documentation for dynamodb best practices/design. Specifically Example of Modeling Relational Data in DynamoDB and Adjacency List Design Pattern. I see in the ...
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Guidance on my NoSQL Schema

I'm working on an application in which I'm in need of a database. I chose NoSQL (DynamoDB) for the app. My Unique ID is set to a user sub but its payload is a list of objects. There are 191 of these ...
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Dynamo get items from last X days using composite key

I have the following sort key in a dynamo db table: YYYY-MM-DD#<USER_ID>#<CATEGORY_ID> Im trying to solve the following two access patterns: get all item for a user in the last x days ...
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DynamoDB: How to model data that's shared and queried by all users?

I am very intrigued by DynamoDB, and it works incredibly well when I model the data for my main use case for my application. That being said, there is one specific use case that I can't wrap my head ...
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How to implement correctly from SQL to NoSQL (DynamoDB)?

I am just new in NoSQL and DynamoDB. I try to moving from using AWS RDS to DynamoDB. I have table user which can have more than one of work experiences and can have more than one of interest (table ...
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Can PostGIS or Oracle Spatial and Graph scale to hundreds of terabytes of data, or should I use a NoSQL option like DynamoDB? [closed]

I'm going to have a very large data set (a few hundred terabytes big eventually), but it is very well structured, relatively simple data involving lat, long points (which is why I want some GIS ...
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Most effective way of logging user query activity

We are logging and permanently storing all the queries performed about private persons in our database. Due to GDPR we need to be able to show all the entities who have requested personal data and the ...
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Suitable NoSQL DB design for a fleet of IoT devices [closed]

This is my use case: 10,000 IoT devices Each IoT device sends its environmental data (temperature, pressure, etc.) every 30 seconds Data of each device will be kept for 24 hours The main requirement ...
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How does an encrypted DynamoDB (the same question applies to RDS as well) query work?

I am trying to understand whether the primary key is encrypted when I choose to encrypt in rest for AWS DynamoDB If the primary key is encrypted, how does a primary-key look up get performed under ...
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How to update DynamoDB item by searching on GSI primary key?

Table has these columns on DynamoDB: primaryKey sortKey GSI_primaryKey data And there is GSI added with primary key GSI_primaryKey and sort key on primaryKey How to update column data if I have ...
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DynamoDB query by flag which tells if it's time to re-process the item

I have a table of stuff and some of it needs to be processed with cron daily or every minute. On SQL table I would add column last_time_processed and save timestamp in it. The query would take rows ...
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Storing ~700 Tb in SQL Db

I am a newbie to Db's on a whole, and I came across a tutorial, wherein we needed to store ~700 Tb of data over a few years. It was mentioned that scaling SQL for such limits of data is not the best ...
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When to use multiple tables in DynamoDB?

The DyanmoDB best practices make it clear that: You should maintain as few tables as possible in a DynamoDB application. Most well designed applications require only one table. I find it amusing ...
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NoSql - Dynamo db - when do you need multiple tables?

I'm experienced in RDBMS, but new to NoSql. This aws dynamodb design advice says that "most well designed applications require only one table". I'm trying to wrap my head around that. I don't see a ...
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How can I reuse a table name after deletion (in DynamoDB)?

I am working through a tutorial which requires creating a DynamoDB table with a specific name. On my first pass at creating the table I did something out sync with the tutorial, so I deleted the table ...
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DynamoDB how to best perform != query?

Within the key-value, hash-table DynamoDB we can only query for partition keys and optionally for a sorting key. My Question is: If a Table A has items with primary partition attribute aId and I've ...
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Insert into DynamoDB when data has different attributes

Is there any way dynamodb can handle dynamic attributes? Depending on the request, I need to store different web query parameters in the same table. What I want to do is like this, if I make a java ...
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Porting a MySQL back-end to AWS DynamoDB

I'm setting up a back-end for a mobile application using Amazon Web Services. I'm fine with S3 and Lambda, but about using DynamoDB I have some problems. Before using AWS, I was developing the core of ...
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most efficient way to deal with real time gps data. S3 vs dynamoDB vs postgres

I have an application that is very write heavy. It saves GPS data every second. The way I handle it at the moment is to store the data locally and upload it to s3 every 5 minutes. The database (...
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How should I use DynamoDB table

I have a list of items. Each item is attached to several urls and each url has a score number. So I have something like this : How should I organise this in dynamoDB? How should I format my Json file ...
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Best way to store a list of numbers where individual numbers can be deleted

I want to store a list of 50 or less nine digit numbers for each primary key in a DynamoDB. Usually I would be using a get request to retrieve the list for a specific primary key. Sometimes I would ...
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NoSQL : Getting latest item from DynamoDB table

I'm implementing chat server currently, with dynamoDB. Here is keys from ChatData table Primary partition key : roomNo Primary sort key : seq Chat server, can created many instant rooms, ...
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Which AWS database services are designed for storing logging records like log4j or log4perl?

I have been using the file system for log4j and log4perl records and want to start using a database to store the information, especially to lookup records organized by pid. We are using MySQL RDS for ...
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DynamoDB - Multiple range keys

Is it possible to have multiple fields as range key? Say I have a table where each row is uniquely identified by <A,B,C> ------------------------------- A | B | C | D | E | ----...
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After modifying the throughput of a DynamoDB table, where can I see the new throughput value before it gets active?

After modifying the throughput of a table in DynamoDB, the "Modify Throughput" is greyed out: Where can I see the new throughput value before it gets active? Sometimes it takes a while for a ...
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Why are some write requests throttled whereas the average consumed write capacity is below the provisioned write capacity?

I see the following graphs in one of my DynamoDB table: Between 2/15 9:30 and 2/15 10:00 some write requests were throttled while the average consumed write capacity was below the provisioned write ...
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History of the provisioned write capacity in DynamoDB beyond the last two weeks

Is there any way to see the history of the provisioned write capacity for a DynamoDB table beyond the last two weeks? When I go to the Amazon AWS console, select a DynamoDB table and look at the ...
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Import CSV or JSON file into DynamoDB

I have 1000 CSV files. Each CSV file is between 1 and 500 MB and is formatted the same way (i.e. same column order). I have a header file for column headers, which match my DynamoDB table's column ...
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Column order in a DynamoDB table browsed through RazorSQL

I use RazorSQL to navigate in a DynamoDB database. What's the rationale behind the column order? I am asking as the import tool uses the same order (which means if I import a CSV file it needs to be ...
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Best way to store, query and update 300M rows of data

I'm struggling to find a solution (preferably DBaaS) that I can rely on for storing and querying some 300M rows of data (roughly 100GB). The data in question is pretty much numeric. There is also one ...
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Using AWS DynamoDB Geospatial index with Python

Amazon's AWS DynamoDB features Geospatial Indexing, which facilitates geo queries: Query Support: Box queries return items that fall within a pair of geo points that define a rectangle as ...
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DynamoDB: searching with primary key or range key, which way is faster?

To those familiar with DynamoDB, I'm trying to make a table where items only have 2 entries. For example, . Most of the time I'll be searching the user_id with a facebook_id on hand. Amazon's ...