How can I access Amazon DynamoDB via Python?

Question

I'm currently using hbase with my Python apps and wanted to try out Amazon DynamoDB. Is there a way to use Python to read, write and query data?

Is there any abstraction layer that supports DynamoDB as well as other NoSQL databases? — DanJ
– DanJ, Commented Jan 23, 2012 at 8:21

David Eyk · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-23 04:50:56Z

29

You can use boto3: https://github.com/boto/boto3

docs: https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/dynamodb.html

api reference: https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/services/dynamodb.html

edited Feb 23, 2021 at 4:50

David Eyk

12.7k12 gold badges69 silver badges106 bronze badges

answered Jan 20, 2012 at 0:03

virhilo

6,8232 gold badges32 silver badges26 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

Comments

Jharrod LaFon · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-25 13:41:37Z

29

Another alternative is PynamoDB. PynamoDB provides an ORM like interface to DynamoDB and supports both Python 2 and Python 3. The entire DynamoDB API is supported by PynamoDB - including global and local secondary indexes, batch operations, binary attributes, queries, scans, etc.

Disclaimer: I wrote PynamoDB.

answered Mar 25, 2014 at 13:41

Jharrod LaFon

5754 silver badges6 bronze badges

2 Comments

Agustín Lado Over a year ago

As of the time of this comment DAX isn't supported by PynamoDB. Hopefully the pull requests that adds support for it will be added at some point, but right now I'm having to use boto3 and make all the queries by hand with amazon-dax-client.

Jesper - jtk.eth Over a year ago

Wow - PynamoDB is awesome!

yadutaf · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-17 14:51:48Z

14

Disclaimer: I'm the current maintainer

You can use Dynamodb-mapper Python library. It's a simple/tiny abstraction layer that allows you to map plain Python object to DynamoDB. It also features a transaction engine.

For advanced tasks such as table management it is still better to directly use Boto (which we rely on, anyway).

answered Aug 17, 2012 at 14:51

yadutaf

7,2201 gold badge41 silver badges48 bronze badges

Comments

Old Panda · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-11 22:49:47Z

3

This question has been years so I believe your problem was already resolved. Just want to mention that you could use boto3 to access DynamoDB as well nowadays.

answered Sep 11, 2017 at 22:49

Old Panda

1,6562 gold badges17 silver badges31 bronze badges

Comments

Dinesh Sonachalam · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-30 15:05:12Z

3

I'm the author of Lucid-Dynamodb, a minimalist wrapper to AWS DynamoDB. It covers all the Dynamodb operations.

Reference: https://github.com/dineshsonachalam/Lucid-Dynamodb

answered May 30, 2021 at 15:05

Dinesh Sonachalam

1,3911 gold badge22 silver badges41 bronze badges

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

How can I access Amazon DynamoDB via Python?

5 Answers 5

Comments

2 Comments

Comments

Comments

Comments

Your Answer

Linked

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

5 Answers 5

Comments

2 Comments

Comments

Comments

Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Linked

Related