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Mastering DynamoDB

You're reading from   Mastering DynamoDB Master the intricacies of the NoSQL database DynamoDB to take advantage of its fast performance and seamless scalability

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783551958
Length 236 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tanmay Deshpande Tanmay Deshpande
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Integrating with AWS Redshift


As I keep on saying, this is a data era and every piece of data keeps on telling us something. Acting on this need, Amazon has introduced Redshift, which is a data warehouse as a service that allows you to dump your data on cloud with minimum cost. Redshift has power query language that allows us to drill TBs and PBs of data in seconds. It helps users to analyze data cheaper and faster.

Now, you must be wondering how this tool could help someone who has his application database as DynamoDB. Well, the answer is quite simple, most of the organization tries to keep their application database size easily controllable. This means that they tend to purge or archive old/stale data periodically. In such cases, it is good to have a data warehousing solution in cloud itself. So, you can keep your application live data on DynamoDB and use Redshift to dump old data to archive and analyze.

Unlike DynamoDB, Redshift is a SQL-based data warehousing tool. It comes with a powerful...

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