Querying DynamoDB by date

Question

I\'m coming from a relational database background and trying to work with amazon\'s DynamoDB

I have a table with a hash key \"DataID\" and a range \"CreatedAt\" and

Answer 1

Updated Answer There is no convenient way to do this using Dynamo DB Queries with predictable throughput. One (sub optimal) option is to use a GSI with an artificial HashKey & CreatedAt. Then query by HashKey alone and mention ScanIndexForward to order the results. If you can come up with a natural HashKey (say the category of the item etc) then this method is a winner. On the other hand, if you keep the same HashKey for all items, then it will affect the throughput mostly when when your data set grows beyond 10GB (one partition)

Original Answer: You can do this now in DynamoDB by using GSI. Make the "CreatedAt" field as a GSI and issue queries like (GT some_date). Store the date as a number (msecs since epoch) for this kind of queries.

Details are available here: Global Secondary Indexes - Amazon DynamoDB : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/GSI.html#GSI.Using

This is a very powerful feature. Be aware that the query is limited to (EQ | LE | LT | GE | GT | BEGINS_WITH | BETWEEN) Condition - Amazon DynamoDB : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/APIReference/API_Condition.html