[piinbinary]

My wishlist for DynamoDB is now down to:

* Fast one-time data import without permanently creating a lot of shards (important if you are restoring from a backup)

* Better visibility into what causes throttling (e.g. was it a hot shard? Was it a brief but large burst of traffic?)

* Lower p99.9 latency. It occasionally has huge latency spikes.

* Indexes of more than 2 columns

* A solution for streaming out updates that is better than dynamodb streams

[monstrado]

Also, better insight into partition sizes / what's causing hot spotting. The DB abstracts a lot from the user, which isn't necessarily great, because it's still subject to the normal pitfalls of a NoSQL database.

[tejasmanohar]

Bigtable is a different beast, but it's new "Key Visualizer" is impressive. Has helped us quickly find anomalies https://cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs/keyvis-overview

Wish Dynamo had something similar

[darkr]

Not a particularly easy solution, but you can use dynamo streams to achieve this by loading fast into a temporary table, trickle-feeding via a stream into another table. When it’s caught up, stop writes on the import table then swap over to the permanent table.

A way of doing this without expending all that effort is oh my wish list too.

[antonp]

> * A solution for streaming out updates that is better than dynamodb streams

What bothers you about dynamodb streams specifically?

[Rafuino]

What kind of p99.9 latency are you looking for?

[anentropic]

and would Dax help?