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There is no one-size database

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There is no one-size database

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- [Instructor] Here, we have a classic diagram from the CTO of Amazon, Werner Vogels, and he talks about how there are different types of databases for different problems. In this particular scenario, we start with the relational database. You can see that it is designed for strong consistency transactions. And so there are services on AWS that provide this, including Amazon, Aurora, RDS. And then in terms of key value or document databases, you can see that Amazon DynamoDB provides these different offerings. They're very different than a relational database because they're low latency. They're key base queries. They're also designed to scale really in a way that is eventually consistent. And there's also a graph database, and Amazon has Amazon Neptune. And if you're going to analyze relationships, for example if you want to look at social media relationships and see different types of descriptive statistics, like…

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