Software Integration Series: DynamoDB Integration with Spring Boot

A simple guide to integrating Serverless NoSQL database with a Spring Boot application.

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DynamoDB is a serverless, NoSQL database offered by AWS. It is a fully managed database and offers reliable performance at any scale. It scales up or down automatically to adjust for capacity and maintain performance.

In this article, we will learn how to easily integrate DynamoDB with a Spring Boot application.

Prerequisites

• Apache Maven
• Docker Desktop
• IDE
• AWS CLI

In this tutorial, we will use docker version of DynamoDB for local integration and testing. Download and Install docker desktop.

Follow the AWS documentation to install AWS CLI.

Maven Dependencies

Let’s create a sample Spring Boot application and include the following dependencies in pom.xml.

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
   <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
   <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
   <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-dynamodb</artifactId>
   <version>1.12.459</version>
  </dependency>…