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Dynamo is a key-value store developed by Amazon with the main focus on availability. Amazon was relying on the Oracle database, but they fastly reached its upper scaling limits. So they decided to build an in-house database to handle the massive scal...

Jun 11, 2021 · 5 min read · mohaadel.hashnode.dev  
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