DynamoDB – Data Pipeline Data Pipeline allows for exporting and importing data to/from a table, file, or S3 bucket. This of course proves useful in backups, testing, and for similar needs or scenarios. In an export, you use the Data Pipeline console, which makes a new pipeline and launches an Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) cluster […]
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DynamoDB – Getting Items Retrieving an item in DynamoDB requires using GetItem, and specifying the table name and item primary key. Be sure to include a complete primary key rather than omitting a portion. For example, omitting the sort key of a composite key. GetItem behaviour conforms to three defaults − It executes as an […]
DynamoDB – Creating Items Creating an item in DynamoDB consists primarily of item and attribute specification, and the option of specifying conditions. Each item exists as a set of attributes, with each attribute named and assigned a value of a certain type. Value types include scalar, document, or set. Items carry a 400KB size limit, […]