Non-relational databases

After the break, Berta wants to finish her explanation with non-relational databases. As there are several types that she wants to talk about, she starts as soon as possible.

Berta: AWS also offers different non-relational databases, and there are many of them. Each one of them is suited to a specific use case, for example, graph databases.

Alex: These are for graphics?

Berta: No, graph, not graphics. You can store different entities and the relationships between them, building a complex graph. They can be used in recommendation engines, fraud detection, identity graphs, and similar applications. For that purpose, Amazon Neptune would be the right choice.

You can also have databases in RAM, for extreme performance, or databases that are time-based, where you analyze time series, such as for the Internet of Things, stock prices, measurements such as temperature or pressure, or...