ScyllaDB University: Using the DynamoDB API in ScyllaDB

ScyllaDB University offers a course on utilizing the DynamoDB-compatible API in ScyllaDB, known as Project Alternator, which is designed to provide an open-source alternative to Amazon's DynamoDB. This project enables ScyllaDB to support DynamoDB client code without modification and can be deployed across various environments, including on-premises and cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. The course guides users through setting up a ScyllaDB cluster, performing basic operations like creating tables, and executing read and write queries using the Boto 3 SDK for Python. Alternator aims to offer cost savings, enhanced performance, and open-source flexibility compared to DynamoDB. The lesson covers consistency levels, data modeling similarities, and differences between DynamoDB and ScyllaDB, and hints at more advanced topics like region management and data encryption in future lessons.