DataBase Flashcards

1
Q

Keyword “NFS” (or storage gateway) + no code changes + highly available + durability (posix compliant)

A

EFS

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2
Q

Storage which allow concurrent access ? (2)

A

S3 and EFS

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3
Q

Storage which allow strong consistency ? (3)

A

DynamoDB, EFS, RDS

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4
Q

Which storage provides strong Read-after-write consistency (most up-to-date data) ?

A

RDS

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5
Q

concurrent access + strong data consistency + file locking + Shared File System + Directories permission

A

EFS

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6
Q

What happens when RDS failure ?

A

RDS performs an automatic failover to the standby DB instance

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7
Q

Whith which type of DataBase IAM database authentication works ? (auth token not password) (3)

A

MariaDB, Mysql and Postgresql

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8
Q

how to enhance RDS performance ? (2)

A

Read replica + larger instance types

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9
Q

OLAP database + analytical queries involving complex calculations + data warehouse + columnar storage

A

Redshift

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10
Q

Which DB allows you to directly run SQL queries against exabytes of unstructured data in Amazon S3. No loading or transformation is required.

A

Redshift Spectrum

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11
Q

designed for globally distributed applications, allowing a single XXX database to span multiple AWS regions.
What is XXX ?

A

Aurora Global DB

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12
Q

What type of endpoint support DynamoDB and S3 ?

A

gateway endpoint (not interface)

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13
Q

built-in security + continuous backups + automated multi-Region replication + in-memory caching + Fast and predictable performance with consistent low latency + Possible to enable auto-scaling ?

A

DynamoDB

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14
Q

Fully managed + flexible schema + automatic scaling with no downtime + data in chunks

A

DynamoDB

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15
Q

Lowest latency data retrieval + highest scalability (50 ms latency + increasing exponentially)

A

DynamoDB

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16
Q

When to use snwomobile vs snowball ?

A

To migrate large datasets of 10PB or more in a single location, you should use Snowmobile (or snowball edge).
For datasets less than 10PB or distributed in multiple locations, you should use Snowball.

17
Q

Mulit AZ vs Read replica, which is async and which is sync ?

A

Multi AZ : sync and highly durable

Read replica : async and highly scalable

18
Q

Mulit AZ vs Read replica

AZ and region ?

A

multi AZ : always span two AZ in one region

read replica : can be within an AZ, cross AZ or cross region

19
Q

Mulit AZ vs Read replica, failover ?

A

Multi AZ : automatic failover to standby when a problem is detected
Read replica : can be manually promoted to a standalone db instance

20
Q

OLAP database

A

Redshift