Best Database as a Service (DBaaS) Providers for Amazon Q

Amazon DynamoDB, a key-value and document databank, delivers single-digit millisecond performance on any scale. It is a fully managed, multiregional, multimaster, durable database that offers built-in security, backup, restore, and in-memory cache for internet-scale apps. DynamoDB can process more than 10 trillion requests per hour and can handle peak requests of more than 20,000,000 requests per second. Many of the fastest-growing businesses in the world, such as Lyft, Redfin, and Airbnb, as well as enterprises like Samsung, Toyota and Capital One, rely on DynamoDB's scale and performance to support mission-critical workloads.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), makes it easy to create, manage, and scale a cloud-based relational database. It offers a cost-efficient, resizable storage capacity and automates time-consuming admin tasks like database setup, patching, backups, and hardware provisioning. It allows you to concentrate on your applications, so they can provide the high performance, security, compatibility, and high availability that they require. Amazon RDS can be used on several database instance types, optimized for memory, performance, or I/O. It offers six familiar database engines to choose, including PostgreSQL and MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle Database and SQL Server. To easily replicate or migrate your existing databases to Amazon RDS, you can use the AWS Database Migration Service.

Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, that combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. Amazon Aurora is five times faster that standard MySQL databases and three time faster than standard PostgreSQL database. It offers the same security, availability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness as commercial databases, but at a fraction of the cost. Amazon Aurora is fully managed and maintained by Amazon Relational Database Service, (RDS). This automates tedious administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups. Amazon Aurora is a distributed, fault-tolerant and self-healing storage that auto-scales up 64TB per database instance. It offers high availability and performance with up to 15 low latency read replicas, point in time recovery, continuous backup to Amazon S3, replication across threeAvailability Zones, and continuous backup to Amazon S3.

IBM Db2®, a family of hybrid data management tools, offers a complete suite AI-empowered capabilities to help you manage structured and unstructured data both on premises and in private and public clouds. Db2 is built upon an intelligent common SQL engine that allows for flexibility and scalability.