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> This is a limitation we ran into trying to implement a critical accounting ledger on top of DynamoDB.

Sounds like a perfect use case for a traditional RDBMS. Why Dynamo?



A fair question, and we’ve done it this way before at simple.com. When looking at the options for a pay-per use database, with global replication, streams and managed for you; We felt that if you could build a ledger on dynamo for these use cases, it’d be pretty compelling and fun.




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