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DynamoDB Cookbook

By : Tanmay Deshpande
Book Image

DynamoDB Cookbook

By: Tanmay Deshpande

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
DynamoDB Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Performing join operations on the DynamoDB data using AWS EMR


In the previous recipe, we saw how to use EMR to access the DynamoDB data and query the same as well. In this recipe, we will see how to join two DynamoDB tables in order to get the combined view.

Getting ready

To perform this recipe, you should have performed the earlier recipe and should have your EMR cluster still running.

How to do it…

Here, we will use two tables: one is the Customer table, and the other one is the Orders table. The Customer table contains detailed information of the customer, while the Order table contains the details of the order, along with customerId, which provides a link between these two tables. Now we want to execute queries that need information from both tables, which cannot be achieved solely by DynamoDB, and so, we use EMR:

  1. To get started, we need to make sure that we have two tables created, as mentioned earlier. Now, we will connect to the EMR cluster, and we will create two Hive tables corresponding...