INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A database is the heart of any application
Without a database, there would be no applications -- on the web, on your phone or tablet, or on a computer.Fortunately, a cloud database
can deliver all of the benefits you might expect such as auto-scaling, high reliability, and fast performance
And, a modern database can benefit from advances in technology that make the database much faster and more efficient.Amazon DynamoDB is a
on-premise database or even a cloud-based database that lacks the high-performance features.To understand what it is and how it can benefit
Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value database, which is a way of describing how the data is stored
Unlike a traditional relational database such as SQL that assigns a descriptor to each field, a key-value database stores data in a
nonrelational way using keys
To give you an idea of what this means, Amazon DynamoDB can handle 10 trillion requests per day and at peaks of 20 million requests per
second.In practical terms, it means there are few business applications that would stress the database engine or cause issues in terms of
reliability, uptime, scaling, or performance
When there are millions of concurrent users accessing a credit card database at the same time, or many millions of passengers accessing a
ridesharing app, the DynamoDB database can not only keep pace but provide nearly instant results.When your staff are free to focus on the
actual application and not running the database and the supporting IT infrastructure management, it leads to better applications, services,
is particularly efficient and fast, which helps companies that need that level of throughout and performance to meet the demands of
to provide a single-digit millisecond response time.As with most Amazon cloud computing services, DynamoDB is designed to operate without
direct involvement from your own staff
There are no requirements related to provisioning or patch the data.The huge benefit here is that your company is free to focus on the
application itself, not how the database is managed and maintained
technologies that are typically needed to make sure the data is available to apps.An important benefit for Amazon DynamoDB specifically is
that it is ready for enterprise-grade applications -- the kind that involves millions of users
In the example mentioned previously related to credit card data, as a company scales up and acquires millions of customers, there are no
sudden requirements related to archiving and storing the data even as the database grows to petabyte-scale and no need to radically improve
