In a blog post on Wednesday, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels explained the types of things AWS will enable for JSON documents. I’ve heard it referred to numerous times as the fastest-growing service within the AWS portfolio and, true or not, it’s almost certain to receive a boost in users with the new capabilities.Īlthough MongoDB is wildly popular, in part because it’s so easy to use, and the eponymous company behind it has raised well over $200 million in venture capital, the product has been dogged by questions about its scalability. For example, you work with DynamoDB data types directly.
Of the three models, the object persistence model is the easiest to code against whenever you are storing, loading, or querying DynamoDB data. Launched in 2012, AWS’s DynamoDB has traditionally been more like a key-value store, although it could store JSON documents. You access this model through the namespace. Now we can run a simple GetItem on Amazon. Once there, select Add connection, choose the DynamoDB local tab and ensure that the details there are correct to your localhost port and add the connection.
JSON is the preferred format for data generated by many web applications and other situations where it’s preferable to serve data in a machine-readable manner (think “the internet of things”), and MongoDB is the most-popular database around for storing, serving and querying JSON data. In order to run queries against the local, select the Operation builder on the left-hand side panel.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is stepping up its presence in the NoSQL database market, and the competition with MongoDB, by adding support for JSON documents to its already-popular DynamoDB service.