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NoSQL databases - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS Essential Training for Developers
NoSQL databases
- [Narrator] AWS has a great page that breaks down the terminology around NoSQL databases and shows the different NoSQL databases that they offer. A NoSQL database is just what the name implies. It's usually a database engine that isn't a relational database type that doesn't use the standard SQL query language. There's NoSQL. Instead of imagining the data being stored in a tabular form, like a spreadsheet with fixed data types for the columns, NoSQL databases are great for storing data in a schemaless format. Instead of a mail slot that only accepts postal letters, it's like a package delivery locker where each cubby can fit anything that you want and they all store different things like shoes, or footballs, a candy bar, whatever. The most popular key value store that they offer is called DynamoDB, and it's pretty easy to use. So this exists higher up in the database-as-a-service offering where you really don't do any management of it. You just pay for what you use. And if you…
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