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		wanghq on July 8, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: There are very few suitable use cases for DynamoDB Sounds interesting! But if the mapping is stored in Postgres, your system's availability is capped by that.

phamilton on July 8, 2017 [–]

Yes. We're migrating towards a more available store (one option we're testing out is Aurora) but availability wasn't our primary motivation in choosing DynamoDB. The main motivation was consistent performance with a dataset too large to fit into memory.

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