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> On this note, I have mixed feelings about Amazon's DynamoDB, but one things about it is to use it properly you need to plan your use first, and schema second. I think there's something you can take from this even with a RDBMS.

This captures the experience I've had with DynamoDB and document databases in general. They appear more flexible at first, but in truth they are much less flexible. You must get them right up front or your going to be paying thousands of dollars every month in AWS bills just for DynamoDB. The need to get things right up front is the opposite of flexibility.




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