AWS Announces New Database Capabilities Including Amazon Aurora DSQL, the Fastest Distributed SQL Database
AWS has announced new database capabilities including Amazon Aurora DSQL, a serverless distributed SQL database offering 99.999% multi-Region availability and strong consistency. Aurora DSQL provides 4x faster reads and writes compared to other distributed SQL databases, with PostgreSQL compatibility and zero infrastructure management.
Additionally, Amazon DynamoDB global tables now supports multi-Region strong consistency, ensuring applications always read the latest data without code changes. These innovations leverage Amazon Time Sync Service technology to synchronize operations globally with microsecond accuracy.
AWS ha annunciato nuove funzionalità per i database, tra cui Amazon Aurora DSQL, un database SQL distribuito senza server che offre una disponibilità multi-regione del 99.999% e forte coerenza. Aurora DSQL consente di avere letture e scritture fino a 4 volte più veloci rispetto ad altri database SQL distribuiti, con compatibilità PostgreSQL e senza gestione dell'infrastruttura.
Inoltre, le tabelle globali Amazon DynamoDB ora supportano una forte coerenza multi-regione, garantendo che le applicazioni leggano sempre i dati più recenti senza modifiche al codice. Queste innovazioni sfruttano la tecnologia del Servizio di sincronizzazione temporale di Amazon per sincronizzare le operazioni a livello globale con un'accuratezza di microsecondi.
AWS ha anunciado nuevas capacidades de bases de datos, incluyendo Amazon Aurora DSQL, una base de datos SQL distribuida sin servidor que ofrece una disponibilidad multi-región del 99.999% y fuerte consistencia. Aurora DSQL proporciona lecturas y escrituras 4 veces más rápidas en comparación con otras bases de datos SQL distribuidas, con compatibilidad con PostgreSQL y sin gestión de la infraestructura.
Adicionalmente, las tablas globales de Amazon DynamoDB ahora soportan consistencia fuerte multi-región, asegurando que las aplicaciones siempre lean los datos más recientes sin cambios en el código. Estas innovaciones aprovechan la tecnología del Servicio de Sincronización de Tiempo de Amazon para sincronizar operaciones globalmente con una precisión de microsegundos.
AWS는 Amazon Aurora DSQL을 포함한 새로운 데이터베이스 기능을 발표했습니다. 이는 99.999% 멀티 지역 가용성과 강력한 일관성을 제공하는 서버리스 분산 SQL 데이터베이스입니다. Aurora DSQL은 다른 분산 SQL 데이터베이스에 비해 4배 빠른 읽기 및 쓰기 속도를 제공하며, PostgreSQL 호환성과 인프라 관리가 필요 없습니다.
또한, Amazon DynamoDB 글로벌 테이블은 이제 멀티 지역 강력한 일관성을 지원하여 애플리케이션이 코드 변경 없이 항상 최신 데이터를 읽을 수 있도록 보장합니다. 이러한 혁신은 아마존 시간 동기화 서비스 기술을 활용하여 전 세계적으로 마이크로초 정확도로 작업을 동기화합니다.
AWS a annoncé de nouvelles fonctionnalités de base de données, y compris Amazon Aurora DSQL, une base de données SQL distribuée sans serveur offrant une disponibilité multi-régionale de 99,999% et une forte cohérence. Aurora DSQL permet des lectures et écritures 4 fois plus rapides par rapport à d'autres bases de données SQL distribuées, tout en étant compatible avec PostgreSQL et sans gestion d'infrastructure.
De plus, les tableaux globaux d'Amazon DynamoDB prennent désormais en charge la forte cohérence multi-régionale, garantissant que les applications lisent toujours les dernières données sans modification du code. Ces innovations tirent parti de la technologie du Service de Synchronisation Temporelle d'Amazon pour synchroniser les opérations à l'échelle mondiale avec une précision de microsecondes.
AWS hat neue Datenbankfunktionen angekündigt, darunter Amazon Aurora DSQL, eine serverlose verteilte SQL-Datenbank, die 99,999% Verfügbarkeit über mehrere Regionen und starke Konsistenz bietet. Aurora DSQL ermöglicht 4-mal schnellere Lese- und Schreibvorgänge im Vergleich zu anderen verteilten SQL-Datenbanken und ist mit PostgreSQL kompatibel, ohne dass eine Infrastrukturverwaltung erforderlich ist.
Zusätzlich unterstützen jetzt die globalen Tabellen von Amazon DynamoDB starke Konsistenz über mehrere Regionen, sodass Anwendungen immer die neuesten Daten einfach ohne Codeänderungen lesen können. Diese Innovationen nutzen die Technologie des Amazon Time Sync Service, um weltweit mit Mikrosekunden-Genauigkeit zu synchronisieren.
- Aurora DSQL delivers 4x faster reads and writes compared to competitors
- 99.999% multi-Region availability ensures high uptime
- Zero infrastructure management reduces operational costs
- PostgreSQL compatibility simplifies developer adoption
- DynamoDB enhancement adds strong consistency without compromising performance
- Both services are currently only available in preview phase
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The launch of Aurora DSQL represents a significant leap in AWS's database capabilities, offering 4x faster performance compared to competitors and 99.999% multi-Region availability. The key innovation lies in decoupling transaction processing from storage and leveraging Amazon Time Sync Service for microsecond-accurate global synchronization. This solves two critical challenges in distributed databases: achieving multi-Region strong consistency with low latency and precise global server synchronization.
The enhanced DynamoDB global tables feature adds strong consistency support, making AWS's database portfolio more compelling for enterprises requiring both SQL and NoSQL solutions. This technological advancement positions AWS to better compete against specialized distributed database providers while potentially increasing its database services revenue and market share in the
Amazon Aurora DSQL provides a distributed SQL database with
- Amazon Aurora DSQL is a new serverless, distributed SQL database that enables customers to build applications with the highest availability, strong consistency, PostgreSQL compatibility, and 4x faster reads and writes compared to other popular distributed SQL databases.
- Amazon DynamoDB global tables now supports multi-Region strong consistency, ensuring customers' multi-Region applications are always reading the latest data without having to change any application code.
- AWS customers, including Autodesk, Electronic Arts, Klarna, QRT, and Razorpay, are exploring Aurora DSQL to support their rapidly growing businesses.
“Databases are a foundational building block of every application, and customers rely on AWS databases to power their most critical workloads,” said G2 Krishnamoorthy, vice president of Database Services at AWS. “Over the years, we have innovated to provide customers with the widest range of high-performance and scalable databases, including Amazon Aurora, which hundreds of thousands of customers rely on every day. Aurora removes the need for customers to make trade-offs by providing the performance of enterprise grade commercial databases with the flexibility and economics of open source. Now, we’re reimagining the relational database again to deliver strong consistency, global availability, and virtually unlimited scalability, without having to choose between low latency or SQL.”
Amazon Aurora DSQL enables highly resilient applications that meet the most stringent business continuity requirements
Amazon Aurora is a cloud-native relational database that delivers all of the performance and capability of a high-end commercial database, with the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of an open source database. However, as customers increasingly build globally distributed, real-time applications with millions of end users around the world, they continue to push the limits of relational databases and want more from Aurora. They want a multi-Region database with low latency, strong consistency, high availability, and zero operational burden—and it has to be SQL. The options available today force trade-offs. Some provide low latency and high availability, but not strong consistency or SQL compatibility. Others provide strong consistency and high availability, but can’t avoid very high latency and still don’t offer SQL compatibility. Now, customers no longer have to compromise with Aurora DSQL, the fastest distributed SQL database that delivers strong consistency, 4x faster reads and writes compared to other popular distributed SQL databases,
Aurora DSQL’s active-active architecture and automated failure recovery ensure that a customer’s application is always available by enabling an application to read and write to any Aurora DSQL endpoint. All transactions written in one Region are reflected in other Regions with strong consistency. With Aurora DSQL, there is no need to provision, patch, or manage database instances, and all updates and security patching happen with no downtime and zero impact to performance. Aurora DSQL automatically scales to meet any workload demand without database sharding or instance upgrades, and can scale reads and writes independently, eliminating scaling bottlenecks while maintaining performance. Aurora DSQL is PostgreSQL compatible, offering an easy-to-use developer experience.
To make this possible, AWS had to reinvent relational database transaction processing. Aurora DSQL overcomes two historical challenges of distributed databases—achieving multi-Region strong consistency with low latency, and syncing servers with microsecond accuracy around the globe. To achieve multi-Region strong consistency with low latency, Aurora DSQL decouples transaction processing from storage to overcome the limitations of the current approaches, which were constrained by information being passed back and forth multiple times at the speed of light. To overcome this, Aurora DSQL only checks each transaction at commit time and, on commit, parallelizes all the writes across all regions to provide a multi-Region database with strong consistency and fast writes. To ensure each Region sees every database operation in the exact order they occurred, Aurora DSQL uses Amazon Time Sync Service, which added hardware reference clocks on every Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance, synchronizing them to satellite-connected atomic clocks to provide microseconds level accurate time within anywhere in the world. By solving these challenges, Amazon Aurora DSQL enables customers to build globally distributed applications on an entirely new scale.
For example, Razorpay, one of the largest fintech companies in
Amazon DynamoDB global tables now supports multi-Region strong consistency
DynamoDB was the first fully managed, serverless, NoSQL database that transformed what internet-scale applications could achieve by redefining performance and simplifying operations with zero infrastructure management and consistent single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. Today, customers across virtually every industry and size are building and modernizing their critical applications by leveraging DynamoDB global tables, a multi-Region, multi-active database that provides
AWS customer Reltio processes more than 9 billion customer profiles for market research and 60 billion API calls annually. In 2020, Reltio went all-in on Amazon DynamoDB to enhance the performance, scaling, and security of its database solution. Now, as Reltio continues to expand globally, the company plans to leverage multi-Region strong consistency in DynamoDB global tables to meet the stringent resilience and performance requirements of its growing customer base.
Both Amazon Aurora DSQL and multi-Region strong consistency in Amazon DynamoDB global tables are available in preview today.
To learn more, visit:
- The AWS News Blog for details on today’s announcements.
- The Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB pages to learn more about these services.
- The Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB customer pages to learn how companies are using these services.
- The AWS re:Invent page for more details on everything happening at AWS re:Invent.
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