Is Amazon S3 a relational database?

What type of database is Amazon S3?

AWS S3 is a key-value store, one of the major categories of NoSQL databases used for accumulating voluminous, mutating, unstructured, or semistructured data. Uploaded objects are referenced by a unique key, which can be any string.

Is S3 a relational database?

The best option will clearly depend on the use case and the data. However, for use cases like a lookup table or a single table query, Amazon S3 has an inexpensive and simple option called S3 Select. This service treats a file as a relational database table where read-only queries can retrieve data.

Is AWS a relational database?

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a managed SQL database service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon RDS supports an array of database engines to store and organize data.

Can you use AWS S3 as a database?

In a Nutshell S3 select allows to retrieve partial content from a single key in S3 using SQL. You can think of it as a single table-database. But this comes with a benefit: updating the data becomes very easy. All you need is an S3 PutObject access (Console, CLI, SDK, SFTP, ...)