High-level Design of DynamoDB
Understand the fundamental design principles behind Amazon DynamoDB, including its schema-less architecture, partitioning strategies, automated resource adaptation, durability, and high availability. This lesson helps you grasp how DynamoDB achieves scalability and fault tolerance in distributed environments by examining key trade-offs and architectural decisions.
There are numerous components in the system, but we will focus on some salient ones. In this chapter, our objective is to understand different design trade-offs while meeting the needs we stated earlier. Before we get into the details, we must develop a high-level understanding of our design. This will help us understand how our design meets our goals before explaining the specifics.
Note: DynamoDB is a feature-rich database and it is not our goal to cover all of its details here. We will discuss some of the most important design aspects.
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