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26 return response['Item']
Notice that there are only a couple of lines to retrieve data from the database without the logging
code!
Learn to use AWS DynamoDB in the following screencast.
Video Link: hps://www.youtube.com/wat?v=gTHE6X5fce8²⁷⁰
Graph Databases
Another specialty database is a Graph Database. When I was the CTO of a Sports Social Network,
we used a Graph Database, Neo4J²⁷¹, to make social graph queries more feasible. It also allowed us
to build products around data science more quily.
Why Not Relational Databases instead of a Graph Database?
Relationship data is not a good fit for relational databases. Here