How can I access AWS DynomoDB from Matlab

Is there a way to access DynamoDB database immediately from Matlab?

[Helper]

There is no specific DynamoDB interface in MATLAB or any of our toolboxes. So, if you would like to interact with DynamoDB from MATLAB, we basically need to look at which external interfaces both offer and whether there is any overlap. MATLAB's external interfaces are documented here:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2018a/matlab/calling-external-functions.html

You may access the same page locally by typing the following at the MATLAB prompt:

web([docroot, '/matlab/calling-external-functions.html'])

And, also important here:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2018a/matlab/calling-web-services.html

You may access the same page locally by typing the following at the MATLAB prompt:

web([docroot, '/matlab/calling-web-services.html'])

DynamoDB has the following SDKs:

https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/developer-resources/

As well as the low-level API:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html

Giving the following possibilities:

1. You should be able to use MATLAB's Interface to Java to work with the Java SDK provided by Amazon.

2. Similarly on Windows you may be able to work with the .NET SDK and MATLAB's interface to .NET.

3. The low-level API should be accessible through MATLAB's web interfaces, I am not entirely sure whether you can use higher level functions like "webread"/"webwrite" here or whether you would really need the lower level HTTP Interface; this really depends on the exact HTTP requests which you may need to build.

Unfortunately, we do not immediately have any examples available for any of these options.

Answer 1

[Yuval Zukerman]

In case you are looking for an answer to the same question, a MATLAB interface for AWS DynamoDB is now available to download from Github.