Current Status

This documents reflects ddbmock status as of 5/11/2012. It may be outdated.

Some items are marked as “WONTFIX”. These are throttling related. The goal of ddbmock is to help you with tests and planification. It won’t get in your way.

Methods support

  • CreateTable DONE
  • DeleteTable DONE
  • UpdateTable DONE
  • DescribeTable DONE
  • GetItem DONE
  • PutItem DONE
  • DeleteItem DONE
  • UpdateItem ALMOST
  • BatchGetItem DONE
  • BatchWriteItem DONE
  • Query DONE
  • Scan DONE

All “Bulk” actions will handle the whole batch in a single pass, unless instructed to otherwise through limit parameter. Beware that real dynamoDB will most likely split bigger one. If you rely on high level libraries such as Boto, don’t worry about this.

UpdateItem has a different behavior when the target item did not exist prior the update operation. In particular, the ADD operator will always behave as though the item existed before.

Comparison Operators

Some comparison might not work as expected on binary data as it is performed on the base64 representation instead of the binary one. Please report a bug if this is a problem for you, or, even better, open a pull request :)

All operators exists as lower case functions in ddbmock.database.comparison. This list can easily be extended to add new/custom operators.

Common to Query and Scan

  • EQ DONE
  • LE DONE
  • LT DONE
  • GE DONE
  • GT DONE
  • BEGINS_WITH DONE
  • BETWEEN DONE

Specific to Scan

  • NULL DONE
  • NOT_NULL DONE
  • CONTAINS DONE
  • NOT_CONTAINS DONE
  • IN DONE

Note

IN operator is the only that can not be imported directly as it overlaps with builtin in keyword. If you need it, either import it with getattr on the module or as in_test which, anyway, is its internal name.

Return value specifications

  • NONE DONE
  • ALL_OLD DONE
  • ALL_NEW DONE
  • UPDATED_OLD DONE
  • UPDATED_NEW DONE

Note

Only UpdateItem recognize them all. Others does only the 2 first

Rates and size limitations

Request rate

  • Throttle read operations when provisioned throughput exceeded. WONTFIX
  • Throttle write operations when provisioned throughput exceeded. WONTFIX
  • Throughput usage logging for planification purpose. DONE
  • Maximum throughput is 10,000. DONE
  • Minimum throughput is 1. DONE
  • Report accurate throughput. DONE

Request size

  • Limit response size to 1MB. TODO
  • Limit request size to 1MB. TODO
  • Limit BatchGetItem to 100 per request. TODO
  • Linit BatchWriteItem to 25 per request. TODO

Table managment

  • No more than 256 tables. DONE
  • No more than 10 CREATING tables. WONTFIX
  • No more than 10 DELETING tables. WONTFIX
  • No more than 10 UPDATING tables. WONTFIX
  • No more than 1 Throughput decrease/calendar day. DONE
  • No more than *2 Throughput increase/update. DONE

Types and items Limitations

  • Table names can only be between 3 and 255 bytes long. DONE
  • Table names can only contains a-z, A-Z, 0-9, ‘_’, ‘-‘, and ‘.’. DONE
  • No more than 64kB/Item including fieldname but not indexing overhead. DONE
  • Primary key names can only be between 1 and 255 bytes long. DONE
  • Attribute value can not be Null. DONE
  • hash_key value maximu 2048 bytes. DONE
  • range_key value maximu 1024 bytes. DONE
  • Numbers max 38 digits precision; between 10^-128 and 10^+126. DONE

Table description

  • item count. DONE
  • data size. DONE
  • date: creation. DONE
  • date: last throughput increase. DONE
  • date: last throughput decrease. DONE

Dates are represented as float timestamps using scientific notation by DynamoDB but we only send them as plain number, not caring about the representation. Most parsers won’t spot any difference anyway.