Table of Contents for
Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, 2nd Edition

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  1. Title Page
  2. Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, Second Edition
  3. Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, Second Edition
  4. Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, Second Edition
  5. Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, Second Edition
  6.  Acknowledgments
  7.  Preface
  8. Why a NoSQL Book
  9. Why Seven Databases
  10. What’s in This Book
  11. What This Book Is Not
  12. Code Examples and Conventions
  13. Credits
  14. Online Resources
  15. 1. Introduction
  16. It Starts with a Question
  17. The Genres
  18. Onward and Upward
  19. 2. PostgreSQL
  20. That’s Post-greS-Q-L
  21. Day 1: Relations, CRUD, and Joins
  22. Day 2: Advanced Queries, Code, and Rules
  23. Day 3: Full Text and Multidimensions
  24. Wrap-Up
  25. 3. HBase
  26. Introducing HBase
  27. Day 1: CRUD and Table Administration
  28. Day 2: Working with Big Data
  29. Day 3: Taking It to the Cloud
  30. Wrap-Up
  31. 4. MongoDB
  32. Hu(mongo)us
  33. Day 1: CRUD and Nesting
  34. Day 2: Indexing, Aggregating, Mapreduce
  35. Day 3: Replica Sets, Sharding, GeoSpatial, and GridFS
  36. Wrap-Up
  37. 5. CouchDB
  38. Relaxing on the Couch
  39. Day 1: CRUD, Fauxton, and cURL Redux
  40. Day 2: Creating and Querying Views
  41. Day 3: Advanced Views, Changes API, and Replicating Data
  42. Wrap-Up
  43. 6. Neo4J
  44. Neo4j Is Whiteboard Friendly
  45. Day 1: Graphs, Cypher, and CRUD
  46. Day 2: REST, Indexes, and Algorithms
  47. Day 3: Distributed High Availability
  48. Wrap-Up
  49. 7. DynamoDB
  50. DynamoDB: The “Big Easy” of NoSQL
  51. Day 1: Let’s Go Shopping!
  52. Day 2: Building a Streaming Data Pipeline
  53. Day 3: Building an “Internet of Things” System Around DynamoDB
  54. Wrap-Up
  55. 8. Redis
  56. Data Structure Server Store
  57. Day 1: CRUD and Datatypes
  58. Day 2: Advanced Usage, Distribution
  59. Day 3: Playing with Other Databases
  60. Wrap-Up
  61. 9. Wrapping Up
  62. Genres Redux
  63. Making a Choice
  64. Where Do We Go from Here?
  65. A1. Database Overview Tables
  66. A2. The CAP Theorem
  67. Eventual Consistency
  68. CAP in the Wild
  69. The Latency Trade-Off
  70.  Bibliography
  71. Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, Second Edition

Chapter 7
DynamoDB

Earth movers are epic pieces of machinery, able to shuffle around massive bits of dirt and other materials with great ease. DynamoDB is a bit like the rented earth mover of NoSQL databases. You don’t have to build it yourself or fix it when it’s broken; you just have to drive it and pay for your usage. But it’s complex to handle so you’ll need to make very intelligent decisions about how to use it lest you end up incurring unexpected costs or jamming the engine.

DynamoDB is a cloud-based database available through Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing division of e-commerce giant Amazon (the same Amazon from which you may have purchased this book). You may know AWS as the creator of a dizzying, ever-expanding array of widely used cloud services, from the Simple Storage Service (S3) to the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and far beyond (there could be over 100 services by the time you read this).

Despite the emergence of serious competitors, such as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, AWS remains the leader of the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) paradigm that has brought cloud computing to the masses, and DynamoDB is AWS’s most significant contribution—thus far—to the world of NoSQL. The cloud has opened vast new horizons for everyone from lone-wolf developers to Fortune 500 companies, and any book on the NoSQL paradigm would be incomplete without this pioneering cloud database.