What is Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?

What is Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)?

Amazon Web Services offers Amazon RDS a service where it is managed completely by AWS and also it offers wide range data base engines like the following:...

How Amazon RDS Works?

Traditionally, database management used to be a very scattered service, from the webserver to the application server and then finally to the database. For the maintenance of such a vast system a team was required, to shrink this workforce, AWS came across an amazing all-in-one service, RDS. The whole architecture of RDS includes every aspect of the traditional management system, all in place. Thus, it includes everything from EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) to DNS (Domain Name System). Every part of the RDS architecture has its own separate set of features completely different from each other. A diagrammatical representation of RDS has been attached ahead....

Use Cases Of Amazon RDS (AWS)

Below are some use cases of Amazon RDS mostly used for secured and highly configured applications like gaming servers and health and financial applications....

Features Of Amazon RDS

The following are some key features of Amazon RDS:...

Amazon RDS Alternatives

MySQL – It is the 2nd most preferred open-source RDBMS in the world. It is developed by Oracle. It is not typically cloud-based in nature like Amazon RDS, i.e. it can be used on PC as well. It is also offered as one of the options on RDS to choose as Database Engine. It supports five server operating systems. The main application of MySQL is in the e-commerce domain, data warehouse, and logging application. PostgreSQL – It is one of the oldest RDBMS. It is also one of the popularly used open-source RDBMS. It was developed by PostgreSQL Global Development Group in 1989. It is a cross-platform software, and it supports more operating systems as compared to others. Its primary focus is maintaining the security of the data and it is a vast kingdom of user-defined functions. MariaDB – It is the most compatible RDBMS, and it supports both secondary database models, i.e. Spatial & Graph. It was released in 2009, by MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise). It supports a wide range of programming languages and also allows users to introduce server-side scripts. One of the best features of MariaDB is that it focuses on high-level security in the community of MariaDB continuously finding and fixing the issues for MariaDB....

Amazon DynamoDB

DynamoDB allows users to create databases capable of storing and retrieving any amount of data and comes in handy while serving any amount of traffic. It dynamically manages each customer’s request and provides high performance by automatically distributing data and traffic over servers. It is a fully managed NoSQL database service that is fast, predictable in terms of performance, and seamlessly scalable. It relieves the user from the administrative burdens of operating and scaling a distributed database as the user doesn’t have to worry about hardware provisioning, patching Software, or cluster scaling. AWS DynamoDB – Creating a Table...

Amazon RedShift

It is a data warehouse that is based on the cloud. Amazon Redshift has a commercial license and is a part of Amazon’s web services. It handles large-scale of data and is known for its scalability. It does parallel processing of multiple data. It uses the ACID properties as its working principle and is very popular. It is implemented in C language and has high availability. To Know more about Amazon RedShift refer to Amazon Redshift...

Steps To Configure Amazon RDS

Now, let us look at the AWS Relational Database Service management console....

FAQs On Amazon RDS

1. Is Amazon RDS a Data Warehouse?...