intermediate~3h
Specialized AWS Databases: Neptune, DocumentDB & Timestream
Three purpose-built managed databases for data shapes that RDS and DynamoDB don't fit well — graph relationships, MongoDB-compatible documents, and time-series data.
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🎓 Learning objectives
- •Explain what a graph database is for and why Neptune exists alongside RDS/DynamoDB
- •Explain DocumentDB's MongoDB compatibility and what that does and doesn't guarantee
- •Explain what makes time-series data different enough to need a purpose-built database (Timestream)
- •Match a described data access pattern to the right one of these three (or to RDS/DynamoDB instead)
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