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Concept Dump: DynamoDB
- DynamoDB - “AWS-owned NoSQL database. Pretty much a big JSON document.”
- Table - “Similar to SQL table. Abstract representation for containing similar data.”
- Item - “Data entry full of arbitrary values known as attributes. Equivalent to a row in a SQL database.”
- Partition Key - “Main identifier for an item.”
- Sort Key - “Secondary identifier for an item.”
- Scan - “Reads through all items in a table and returns those that match certain filter criteria.”
- Query - “Reads through all items with a given partition key and returns those that match certain filter criteria.”
- Single Table Design - “Pattern of putting all required data for an application or service in a single table.”
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