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shle2821
shle2821

Reputation: 1886

AWS dynamoDB vs Elastic Beanstalk. What serves my purpose better?

Parse migration guide suggests if we move over to AWS, it recommends using Elastic Beanstalk. The more I read about AWS services, I'm thinking DynomoDB is the better choice. DynamoDB and Elastic Beanstalk both use noSQL. Does anyone know the obvious difference between the two? The ability to handle many small but frequent requests is important for my project.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 377

Answers (2)

Mike Dinescu
Mike Dinescu

Reputation: 55720

Contrary to what the comments say, Elastic Beanstalk is NOT a web server, and it is NOT a database. Elastic Beanstalk is an AWS service that helps users quickly provision other AWS services, such as compute (think EC2) and storage (think S3 or DynamoDB) and set up monitoring and deployment of user's application on these resources. With Beanstalk you can deploy your applications and retain control over the underlying AWS resources. In your case, you might use Elastic Beanstalk do deploy a MongoDB server database to store your parse data.

DynamoDB on the other hand is a managed, distributed highly available and scalable non-relational (NoSQL) database provided as an AWS service. Dynamo is in some ways comparable to MongoDB (they can both store data and they are both non-relational) but where Mongo is a system that you have to manage and deploy yourself (perhaps with the help of Elastic Beanstalk), Dynamo is a fully managed system where you only have to worry about your application logic. In your case you'd be replacing MongoDB with DynamoDB which will free yourself to focus on your appliction instead of having to worry about maintaining MongoDB (i.e updating it and the host OS when new releases come out, etc).

Upvotes: 1

Dmitry Buslaev
Dmitry Buslaev

Reputation: 300

DynamoDB is the ultimate, scalable noSql database system. Go with Dynamo. It handles many small requests very well.

Upvotes: 1

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