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0 pointsjoshstrange2y ago0 comments

Single Table Design is the way forward here. I can highly recommend The DynamoDB Book [0] and anything (talks, blogs, etc) that Rick Houlihan has put out. In previous discussions the author shared a coupon code ("HACKERNEWS") that will take $20-$50 off the cost depending on the package you buy. It worked earlier this year for me when I bought the book. It was very helpful and I referred back to it a number of times. This github repo [1] is also a wealth of information (maintained by the same guy who wrote the book).

As an added data point I don't really like programming books but bought this since the data out there on Single Table Design was sparse or not well organized, it was worth every penny for me.

[0] https://www.dynamodbbook.com/

[1] https://github.com/alexdebrie/awesome-dynamodb

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deely32y ago

And if you don't want to spend money, you can get idea from this article:

https://www.alexdebrie.com/posts/dynamodb-single-table/

Im really curious about real life performance on different databases, especially in situation where RAM is smaller than database size.

wizofaus2y ago

That article didn't appear to be suggesting single-table design was appropriate for general purpose RMDBSes (or any database other than DynamoDb).

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