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tags: [AWS]
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# Database options
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Amazon offers numerous database options however they are often named differently
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or are Amazon's own implementation of a certain database type:
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- **Relational databases**
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- Amazon offers two core RDSs: **Amazon Aurora** and **Amazon RDS**. Both
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allow you to use MySQL and PostgreSQL as the management implementation. The
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differences come down to which management implmentations are supported,
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number of backups and throughput. For instance Aurora has higher
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performance, more logging and fail-safes.
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- **NoSQL**
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- Document-based databases
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- The obvious candidate for this kind of database is MongoDB. Amazon doesn't
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offer MongoDB it offers its own implementation which is almost identical
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and compatible with Mongo: **Amazon DocumentDB**. (There is some bitching
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about this from Mongo but they are competitors.)
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- Key-value database
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- A key-value database is basically a hash-table or a map
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- The Amazon implementation of this is **DynamoDB**
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- Confusingly, for NoSQL, a DynamoDB instance comprises "tables" which are
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groupings of keys and values. I guess "table" here is meant in terms of
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"hash table"
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- A cool feature is that you can subscribe to a DynamoDB table and run a
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lambda when a value changes.
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