We have seen how to set up DynamoDB locally and how to create a DynamoDB AWS account. Now we will see what the advantages and disadvantages of both are:
- Regions and distinct AWS accounts are not supported at the client level
- Provisioned throughput settings are ignored in downloadable DynamoDB
- Scan operations are performed sequentially and parallel scans are not supported in downloadable DynamoDB
- The speed of read/write operations is based on the configuration of your computer
- Read operations are eventually consistent, but as they are running on your computer, most reads appear to be more consistent
- Both web and downloadable services have a data retrieval limit of 1 MB ...
