At its re:Invent conference, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit ... the AWS team says it had to “reinvent relational database transaction processing.” Typically, ensuring strong consistency ...

Bice joins Splunk from AWS where he has worked for five years overseeing the cloud giant’s portfolio of database products including Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Aurora ...

Relational databases were developed in an earlier generation ... They include MongoDB, Couchbase, and Amazon's DynamoDB. Key-value stores are said to offer flexibility and speed.