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Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week
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Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week

by Sudarshan Kadambi, Xun (Brian) Wu
March 2018
Beginner to intermediate
308 pages
8h 23m
English
Packt Publishing
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Tables, items, and attributes

Similar to other database systems, DynamoDB stores data in tables. A table is a collection of data. For example, if we have a table called Person, you could use this to store personal information, contact information, information about friends and family, and other such information. You could also have a table called Cars to store the information about the vehicles that people drive.

Each table contains multiple items. An item is a group of attributes that are uniquely identified among all of the other items. In the People table, each item represents a person. In the Cars table, each item represents a vehicle. Items in DynamoDB are similar in many ways to rows, records, or tuples in other database systems. In ...

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