AWS Database Blog
Author: Jason Hunter
Scaling DynamoDB: How partitions, hot keys, and split for heat impact performance (Part 1: Loading)
The general rule with Amazon DynamoDB is to choose a high cardinality partition key. But why; and what happens if you don’t? Inspired by a customer use case, we dive deep into this question and explore the performance of loading and querying DynamoDB using different partition key designs and table settings. After each experiment, we […]