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id: xowl
title: DynamoDB
tags: [AWS]
created: Sunday, June 09, 2024
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# DynamoDB

## Data structure

![](../img/dynamodb.png) Data is stored as a set of key-values in a table

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/HowItWorks.CoreComponents.html
Data is stored as a table of key-value pairs.

This doesn't mean there are single values corresponding to each key. There can
be multiple columns for each key and the key itself is also a column.

DynamoDB is "NoSQL" because it does not support #SQL queries and is
non-relational meaning there cannot be JOIN operations via
[foreign_keys](Foreign_keys_in_SQL.md)

## Usage

## Related notes