You're reading from AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide A comprehensive guide to becoming an AWS Certified Database specialist

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803243108

Length 472 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

IT Certification

Author (1):

Kate Gawron

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS

2. Chapter 1: AWS Certified Database – Specialty Overview FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Understanding Database Fundamentals

4. Chapter 3: Understanding AWS Infrastructure

5. Part 2: Workload-Specific Database Design

6. Chapter 4: Relational Database Service

7. Chapter 5: Amazon Aurora

8. Chapter 6: Amazon DynamoDB

9. Chapter 7: Redshift and DocumentDB

10. Chapter 8: Neptune, Quantum Ledger Database, and Timestream

11. Chapter 9: Amazon ElastiCache

12. Part 3: Deployment and Migration and Database Security

13. Chapter 10: The AWS Schema Conversion Tool and AWS Database Migration Service

14. Chapter 11: Database Task Automation

15. Chapter 12: AWS Database Security

16. Part 4: Monitoring and Optimization

17. Chapter 13: CloudWatch and Logging

18. Chapter 14: Backup and Restore

19. Chapter 15: Troubleshooting Tools and Techniques

20. Part 5: Assessment

21. Chapter 16: Exam Practice

22. Chapter 17: Answers

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Chapter 8: Neptune, Quantum Ledger Database, and Timestream

In this chapter, we are going to explore and learn about three different Amazon Web Services (AWS) database technologies: Neptune, Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB), and Timestream. Each of these databases supports a specific workload type. All three are fully managed, and QLDB and Timestream are serverless databases.

Neptune is a graph database that allows you to run queries to quickly find out the connections and relationships between data items. QLDB is a database that works like an audit trail and does not allow any data to be deleted or changed. Timestream is a time-series database that allows you to work with data closely connected to timestamps, allowing you to keep an ordered record of events.

This chapter includes a hands-on lab where we will deploy, configure, and explore Neptune, QLDB, and Timestream instances, including how we can monitor and access them.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following...