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AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide

You're reading from  AWS Certified Database – Specialty (DBS-C01) Certification Guide

Product type Book
Published in May 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243108
Pages 472 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Kate Gawron Kate Gawron
Profile icon Kate Gawron

Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction to Databases on AWS
2. Chapter 1: AWS Certified Database – Specialty Overview 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 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Overview of Amazon Neptune

Amazon Neptune is a graph database. As we learned in Chapter 2, Understanding Database Fundamentals, a graph database stores information as nodes and relationships rather than in tables and indexes or documents. You use a graph database when you need to know how things connect together, or if you need to store data that has a large number of links between records and you want to improve performance when running queries to find out those links. You can have queries in a relational database management system (RDBMS) that traverse multiple tables, but the more tables and links you add to the query, the worse the performance becomes, and this is where a graph database can make a big difference.

Let's start by looking at Neptune architecture and how it is deployed within AWS in the Cloud.

Neptune architecture and features

Amazon Neptune is deployed within a VPC. When it is deployed, you control access to it using subnetworks (subnets) and security...

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