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Awesome DynamoDB 🚀
A handy list of resources for getting up to speed on modeling, operating, and using
Amazon DynamoDB.

Contributions welcome!
Table of Contents
Rick Houlihan
Books
Videos
Written resources
Tools
Uses

Rick Houlihan
Rick Houlihan gets his own section due to his mythical status among DynamoDB fans. His
AWS re:Invent talks are always the most-watched sessions on YouTube. Rick is rarely seen
outside his native habitat on the strip in Las Vegas or in the AWS War Room, but some
astute developers have seen him in the wild, usually mumbling about how 'all data is
relational'.

Rick's talks:

AWS re:Invent 2021: Advanced Design Patterns

AWS re:Invent 2020: Advanced Design Patterns Part 1 & Part 2
AWS re:Invent 2019: Advanced Design Patterns
AWS re:Invent 2018: Advanced Design Patterns
AWS re:Invent 2017: Advanced Design Patterns
DynamoDB Office Hours | Online banking service model

Books

The DynamoDB Book. Comprehensive guide to data modeling with DynamoDB.

Endorsed by Rick Houlihan and heavily used within Amazon & AWS.

Videos
AWS re:Invent 2022: Deploy modern and effective data models with DynamoDB. Talk
with Alex DeBrie and DynamoDB Principal Engineer Amrith Kumar that covers
infrastructure, data modeling, and their interaction.
AWS re:Invent 2021: Data Modeling with DynamoDB. Updated talk that discusses core
principles with DynamoDB as well as key tips for designing your data model.
AWS re:Invent 2020: Data Modeling with DynamoDB Part 1 & Part 2. Intermediate level
talks on the concepts behind DynamoDB data modeling.
AWS re:Invent 2018: DynamoDB Under the Hood. Really great talk from a DynamoDB
engineer that dives into the architecture behind DynamoDB.
 AWS re:Invent 2019: Data Modeling with DynamoDB. A more intermediate level talk
that will explain some of the principles behind data modeling with DynamoDB.
DynamoDB Deep Dive (Course). A full course from the folks at Pluralsight on how to
use DynamoDB.
ServerlessConf 2019: Using (and Ignoring) DynamoDB Best Practices with Serverless.
This talk focuses on using DynamoDB in Serverless applications.
DynamoDB Relationships. A nice 30 minute video series from Gary Jennings that walks
through examples of how to model different types of relationships in DynamoDB --
one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many. Nice use of the NoSQL Workbench for
DynamoDB as well.
Videos from The DynamoDB Book. A playlist of three sample videos from The
DynamoDB Book.

Written resources
DynamoDB Best Practices Guide. From the AWS documentation, a list of best practices
and examples for modeling with DynamoDB.
DynamoDB Guide. A basic walkthrough to DynamoDB concepts, API actions, and
mechanics, with some data modeling examples.
From relational DB to single DynamoDB table: a step-by-step exploration. Awesome
post from Forrest Brazeal with a step-by-step walkthrough of moving to a single-table
design.
How to switch from RDBMS to DynamoDB in 20 easy steps.... By Jeremy Daly, a funny
and eternally useful list of steps for learning how to model with DynamoDB.
Comparing multi and single table approaches to designing a DynamoDB data model.
Paul Swail takes a look at the pros and cons of modeling with a single table in
DynamoDB and provides recommendations on when to avoid it.
Lessons learned using Single-table design with DynamoDB and GraphQL in
production. A collection of great tips learned the hard way from Rafal Wilinski. Rafal is
the creator of Dynobase, listed in the Tools section below.
DynamoDB Document client cheatsheet. From the prolific Nader Dabit, this is a handy
cheatsheet for using DynamoDB in JavaScript applications.
Amazon’s DynamoDB — 10 years later.
DynamoDB Examples. An Amazon Web Services and DynamoDB community lead
repository containing code and examples for developing with and using Amazon
DynamoDB.
Amazon DynamoDB Design Patterns. This repo contains sample data models and
source code to demonstrate design patterns for Amazon DynamoDB.
The Three DynamoDB Limits You Need to Know.
Tools
Dynobase. Handy tool that makes it easy to view and manipulate your tables, generate
application code, and more.
NoSQL Workbench For Amazon DynamoDB. A tool similar MySQL workbench that lets
you model data and interact with your tables without going to the AWS console.
DynamoDB Toolbox. An open source project from Jeremy Daly that provides a number
of helpful utilities for working with single-table designs in JavaScript. Unofficial winner
of the 2019 Best Logo in Open Source award.
Dynamoose. An open source modeling tool for Node.js projects, inspired by
Mongoose.
Dynamode. An open-source strongly typed modeling tool for Typescript projects.
DynamoDB Read Stream. An open-source tool for reading data chunk by chunk. This
tool is created for handling DynamoDB limitation for one response (1 MB).
DynamoDB Pricing Calculator. Simple tool to calculate your DynamoDB costs
DynamoDB Table Designer. Visual tool to help you create DynamoDB Table definitions
without the knowledge of CreateTable syntax.
Dynoexpr Typescript/Javascript expression builder library which immensely simplifies
the DynamoDB.DocumentClient syntax.
TypeDORM. Strongly typed object relational mapper built with single-table-design in
mind, and inspired by TypeORM.
LucidDynamodb A minimalistic wrapper to AWS DynamoDB.
ElectroDB A DynamoDB library to ease the use of having multiple entities and complex
hierarchical relationships in a single DynamoDB table.
Alternator is a Scylla feature adding compatibility with Amazon DynamoDB. It can be
used locally with Docker or in production.
typesafe-dynamodb provides type safety and editor type hints to the getItem ,
putItem , deleteItem and query API (SDK v2) calls which understand the structure of
data in your table.
SenseDeep includes a DynamoDB Studio with single-table aware browser, designer,
migration manager, provisioner, and single table metrics.
DynamoDB OneTable. DynamoDB library that makes single table designs using NodeJS
much easier via a high-level type-safe API.
Serverless Console Visual Studio Code extension DynamoDB console.
DynamoDB CSV utility A utility that allows CSV import / export to DynamoDB on the
command line.
dynaglue TypeScript library for easily querying and updating against multi-
collection/single-table designs
dynamodb-size JavaScript library for estimating the size of DynamoDB objects
DynamoDataTransform Dynamo Data Transform is an easy to use data transformation
tool for DynamoDB
 dynamodb-shell. ddbsh is a simple CLI for DynamoDB modeled on isql, and the
MySQL CLIs.
NoSQL Architect. NoSQL Architect is a fully automated schema generator and cost
optimization tool for single-table designs in DynamoDB.

Uses
Priority Queuing. This post describes how to convert any of your Amazon DynamoDB
tables into a queue that can enqueue and dequeue, as you would do with any other
large-scale queuing systems.
Near-Real-Time Event Processing. This post evaluates multiple patterns for processing
DynamoDB streams by using several AWS services that are part of AWS serverless
computing. It also dives into the details about the most reliable and scalable pattern to
perform near-real-time processing of DynamoDB streams to notify other systems and
users, archive transactions, and replicate data to other data stores while ensuring
ordered processing.
Advanced Analytics & Visualizations. This blog post shows you how to build a big data

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