Easy DynamoDB Local Environment (Mac OSX / Linux)

dynamodbLocal.md

Set Up DynamoDB

• Get DynamoDB

$ wget http://dynamodb-local.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/dynamodb_local_latest.tar.gz

• Unzip

$ gunzip dynamodb_local_latest.tar.gz

• Make a local directory

$ mkdir ~/.dynamolocal

• Untar to new directory

$ tar -jxvf dynamodb_local_latest.tar -C ~/.dynamolocal

Modify .bash_profile or .profile

Add:

function dynamodb(){
  cd ~/.dynamolocal
  java -Djava.library.path=./DynamoDBLocal_lib/ -jar DynamoDBLocal.jar
}

Running DynamoDB

From command line run:

$ dynamodb