Database Reference
In-Depth Information
DynamoDB data types
DynamoDB supports six data types, namely
String
,
Number
,
Binary
,
StringSet
,
NumberSet
, and
BinarySet
. To understand this better, we will get some help from the
AWS management console. Once we have signed up with AWS, our management console
will look for an icon to work with DynamoDB, as shown in the following screenshot:
Clicking on the DynamoDB icon for the first time will take us to a getting started page,
which has guidelines on starting with DynamoDB. We should click on the
Create Table
button to create our first table. We are now going to create the
Tbl_Book
table, which we
have seen enough times. We are also going to insert only one item into this table. The table
and its item are as shown: