How to get item count from DynamoDB?

Question

I want to know item count with DynamoDB querying.

I can querying for DynamoDB, but I only want to know \'total count of item\'.

For example, \'SELECT COUNT(*

Answer 1

I'm posting this answer for anyone using C# that wants a fully functional, well-tested answer that demonstrates using query instead of scan. In particular, this answer handles more than 1MB size of items to count.

        public async Task GetAvailableCount(string pool_type, string pool_key)
    {
        var queryRequest = new QueryRequest
        {
            TableName = PoolsDb.TableName,
            ConsistentRead = true,
            Select = Select.COUNT,
            KeyConditionExpression = "pool_type_plus_pool_key = :type_plus_key",
            ExpressionAttributeValues = new Dictionary {
                {":type_plus_key", new AttributeValue { S =  pool_type + pool_key }}
            },
        };
        var t0 = DateTime.UtcNow;
        var result = await Client.QueryAsync(queryRequest);
        var count = result.Count;
        var iter = 0;
        while ( result.LastEvaluatedKey != null && result.LastEvaluatedKey.Values.Count > 0) 
        {
            iter++;
            var lastkey = result.LastEvaluatedKey.Values.ToList()[0].S;
            _logger.LogDebug($"GetAvailableCount {pool_type}-{pool_key} iteration {iter} instance key {lastkey}");
            queryRequest.ExclusiveStartKey = result.LastEvaluatedKey;
            result = await Client.QueryAsync(queryRequest);
            count += result.Count;
        }
        _logger.LogDebug($"GetAvailableCount {pool_type}-{pool_key} returned {count} after {iter} iterations in {(DateTime.UtcNow - t0).TotalMilliseconds} ms.");
        return count;
    }
}