EP153: A Cheatsheet on Comparing Key-Value Stores

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A Cheatsheet on Comparing Key-Value Stores

A key-value store is a database that stores data as a collection of key-value pairs. We compare 15 key-value stores across different parameters like replication style, consistency protocol, node discovery approach, and partitioning approach.

The databases covered are:

1. Redis

2. MongoDB

3. Cassandra

4. DynamoDB

5. Neo4j

6. Couchbase

7. CosmosDB

8. HBase

9. Firestore

10. ScyllaDB

11. CouchDB

12. Zookeeper

13. ETCD

14. Riak

15. FoundationDB

Over to you: Which other database will you add to the list?

A Handy Cheatsheet for the Most Popular Cloud Services

What’s included?

• AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud

• Cloud servers

• Databases

• Message queues and streaming platforms

• Load balancing, DNS routing software

• Security

• Monitoring

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Which Database Should I Use on AWS?

This question often comes up when we start deploying an application on AWS. There are many options available to choose from.

Broadly, there are three categories of databases:

1. Relational
   The two main choices in this space are AWS RDS and AWS Aurora.
   
   AWS RDS is a managed relational DB service that supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc. AWS Aurora is a cloud-native relational database that supports high availability and scalability

2. Non-Relational
   The three main choices in this category are DynamoDB, DocumentDB, and AWS Keyspaces.
   
   DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL key-value datastore. DocumentDB is a managed document database compatible with MongoDB. AWS Keyspaces is a managed, wide-column Apache Cassandra service for large-scale workloads.

3. In-memory
   AWS Elasticache is the most popular option in this category. It is a fully managed Redis or Memcached service for sub-millisecond latency.

Over to you: Which AWS Databases have you used?

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