Tag: queries

In a previous AWS Database Blog post, I introduced Z-order indexing, a way in which you can sort your data to efficiently query an Amazon DynamoDB table by using range bounds on multiple attributes. In this post, we explore the process of creating a schema for your index. We look at how to decide which […]

Update from May 29, 2018: Today, we published Z-order indexing for multifaceted queries in Amazon DynamoDB: Part 2. TL;DR Using Z-order indexing, you can efficiently run range queries on any combination of fields in your schema. Although Amazon DynamoDB doesn’t natively support Z-order indexing, you can implement the functionality entirely from the client side. A single […]

Jeff Levine is a solutions architect for Amazon Web Services. As a solutions architect for Amazon Web Services, one of my responsibilities is to help our customers to learn about new features and capabilities of our services. Amazon RDS makes it possible to set up, operate, and scale relational databases in the cloud without having […]