[fulafel]

DynamoDB seems to be so low level that it takes a lot of design and programming effort to get right. Are there any higher level solutions that build on DynamoDB that take care of these things automatically? For example denormalization sounds pretty error prone if you implement it by hand.

[abd12]

It's different than a relational database in that you need to model your data to your patterns, rather than model your data and then handle your patterns.

Once you learn the principles, it really is like clockwork. It changes your process, but you implement the same process every time.

Honestly, I think part of the problem is that there's a lot of bad NoSQL content out there. A little standardization of process in this space will go a long way, IMO :)