fromdeath and gravity
6 days agoDynamoDB crash course: part 1 - philosophy
A table is a collection of items, and an item is a collection of namedattributes. Items are uniquely identified by apartition key attribute and an optionalsort key attribute. The partition key determines where (i.e. on what computer) an item is stored. The sort key is used to get ordered ranges of items from a specific partition. That's is, that's the whole data model. Sure, there's indexes and transactions and other features, but at its core, this is it. Put another way:
