Purpose-Built Databases for Modern Applications
summary
The talk explains why modern applications use multiple purpose-built databases instead of a single monolithic database, and catalogs AWS database types—relational, key-value, wide-column, document, in-memory, graph, time-series and ledger—each targeted to specific problems. It describes how AWS’s specialized databases meet scaling, performance and operational flexibility needs for internet-scale, distributed applications.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:28Agenda
- 2:55Requirements of a Modern Application
- 6:59Internet-Scale E-Commerce
- 15:53Why Consider Purpose-Built Databases?
- 19:24Amazon Aurora
- 22:20Amazon DynamoDB
- 24:12Amazon DocumentDB
- 25:11Amazon ElastiCache
- 26:32Amazon Neptune
- 27:28Amazon Timestream
- 28:45Amazon Quantum Ledger Database
- 29:47Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)
- 32:00AWS Training and Certification
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