Price: Free
This course focuses on ScyllaDB Alternator, a project that gives ScyllaDB API compatibility with DynamoDB
Course Description
Project Alternator is a source-available project for an Amazon DynamoDB™-compatible API written in C++. The goal of this project is to deliver a source-available alternative to Amazon’s DynamoDB, deployable wherever a user would want: on-premises, on other public clouds like Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform, or still on AWS (for users who wish to take advantage of other aspects of Amazon’s market-leading cloud ecosystem, such as the high-density instances). DynamoDB users can keep their same client code unchanged.
The course covers an overview of Alternator, how it works, and some hands-on labs and examples.
By the end of this course, you will know how to migrate existing DynamoDB applications to work with ScyllaDB as well as create new ones that use the DynamoDB API. You can read more about Project Alternator in this blog post and in the documentation.
Alternator is available as part of ScyllaDB. It’s recommended you take the ScyllaDB Essentials course before taking this one. You can read more about it in the Documentation.
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*Course version S310.2 updated on the 16th of February 2026