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DynamoDB Cookbook

You're reading from  DynamoDB Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781784393755
Pages 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Tanmay Deshpande Tanmay Deshpande
Profile icon Tanmay Deshpande

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

DynamoDB Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Taking Your First Steps with DynamoDB Operating with DynamoDB Tables Manipulating DynamoDB Items Managing DynamoDB Indexes Exploring Higher Level Programming Interfaces for DynamoDB Securing DynamoDB DynamoDB Best Practices Integrating DynamoDB with other AWS Services Developing Web Applications using DynamoDB Developing Mobile Applications using DynamoDB Index

Performing data modeling and table creation


In this recipe, we will see how to model data for this Android application and create DynamoDB tables accordingly.

Getting ready

To get started with this recipe, you need to know how to create a table in DynamoDB using the console.

How to do it…

To perform data modeling for any Android application using the NoSQL database as a backend, we need to first start with the queries, which we would like to execute on the tables. Considering the requirements, we will need at least two tables:

  • User: This is a table used to store information of a valid user's details along with the credentials

  • Contact: This is a table used to store information of all the contacts added by users

As we will be using the User table to save the registered user information, as well as to sign in, we can use an e-mail ID as a hash key for this table.

Here, we don't need a range key, as the e-mail ID being a primary hash key should be good enough to recognize a user for registration and...

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