Amazon Simple Queue Service ( Amazon SQS ) is a distributed message queuing service introduced by Amazon.com as a beta in late 2004, and generally available in mid 2006. It supports programmatic sending of messages via web service applications as a way to communicate over the Internet. SQS is intended to provide a highly scalable hosted message queue that resolves issues arising from the common producer–consumer problem or connectivity between producer and consumer.
36-397: SQS can mean: Amazon Simple Queue Service , a hosted message queue service for web applications. Spatial Query Server , Boeing Spatial Query Server (SQS) - Spatial Database The ICAO-Code from Susi Air , an Indonesian Airline Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
72-506: A DynamoDB user issues a write operation (a Put, Update, or Delete). While a typical relational system would convert the SQL query to relational algebra and run optimization algorithms, DynamoDB skips both processes and gets right to work. The request arrives at the DynamoDB request router, which authenticates––"Is the request coming from where/whom it claims to be?"––and checks for authorization––"Does
108-467: A digital signature with the key. If they match then the user is considered authentic, if not then the authentication fails and the request is not processed. Amazon SQS guarantees at-least-once delivery . Messages are stored on multiple servers for redundancy and to ensure availability. If a message is delivered while a server is not available, it may not be removed from that server's queue and may be resent. As of 2007 , Amazon SQS does not guarantee that
144-457: A full table scan, resulting in significant overhead. Even when using the "filter" operation, DynamoDB scans the entire table before applying filters. DynamoDB uses JSON for its syntax because of its ubiquity. The create table action demands just three arguments: TableName, KeySchema––a list containing a partition key and an optional sort key––and AttributeDefinitions––a list of attributes to be defined which must at least contain definitions for
180-494: A given combination of Partition Key and Sort Key is guaranteed to have at most one item associated with it in a DynamoDB Table. DynamoDB supports numerical, String, Boolean, Document, and Set Data Types. Primary Key of a Table is the Default or Primary Index of a DynamoDB Table. In addition, a DynamoDB Table can have Secondary Indices. A Secondary Index is defined on an attribute that is different from Partition Key or Sort Key as
216-430: A message is delivered, a receipt handle is generated for that delivery and sent to the recipient. These receipts are not sent with the message but in addition to it. SQS requires the recipient to provide the receipt in order to delete a message. This feature is new as of 2008 where only the message ID was required for message deletion. Because the system is distributed, a message may be sent more than once. In this case,
252-442: A motivation for the project in his 2012 announcement. Amazon began as a decentralized network of services. Originally, services had direct access to each other's databases. When this became a bottleneck on engineering operations, services moved away from this direct access pattern in favor of public-facing APIs . Still, third-party relational database management systems struggled to handle Amazon's client base. This culminated during
288-524: A public 20-character Access Key. This key is included in an AWS service request to identify the user. If the user is not using SOAP with WS-Security , a digital signature is calculated using the Secret Access Key. The Secret Access Key is a 40-character private identifier. AWS uses the Access Key ID provided in a service request to look up an account's Secret Access Key. Amazon.com then calculates
324-410: A table be reflected in each of the table's indices. DynamoDB handles this using a service it calls the "log propagator", which subscribes to the replication logs in each node and sends additional Put, Update, and Delete requests to indices as necessary. Because indices result in substantial performance hits for write requests, DynamoDB allows a user at most five of them on any given table. Suppose that
360-439: A top priority, putting these pieces together was extremely taxing. Content with compromising storage efficiency, Amazon's response was Dynamo : a highly available key–value store built for internal use. Dynamo, it seemed, was everything their engineers needed, but adoption lagged. Amazon's developers opted for "just works" design patterns with S3 and SimpleDB. While these systems had noticeable design flaws, they did not demand
396-547: A two-tier backup system of replication and long-term storage. Each partition features three nodes, each of which contains a copy of that partition's data. Each node also contains two data structures: a B tree used to locate items, and a replication log that notes all changes made to the node. DynamoDB periodically takes snapshots of these two data structures and stores them for a month in S3 so that engineers can perform point-in-time restores of their databases. Within each partition, one of
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#1732844689344432-420: Is always of String type, while the value can be of one of multiple data types. An Item is uniquely identified in a Table using a subset of its attributes called Keys. A Primary Key is a set of attributes that uniquely identifies items in a DynamoDB Table. Creation of a DynamoDB Table requires definition of a Primary Key. Each item in a DynamoDB Table is required to have all of the attributes that constitute
468-468: Is first distributed into different partitions by hashing on the partition key. Each partition can store up to 10GB of data and handle by default 1,000 write capacity units (WCU) and 3,000 read capacity units (RCU). One RCU represents one strongly consistent read per second or two eventually consistent reads per second for items up to 4KB in size. One WCU represents one write per second for an item up to 1KB in size. To prevent data loss, DynamoDB features
504-491: The 2004 holiday season, when several technologies failed under high traffic. Engineers were normalizing these relational systems to reduce data redundancy , a design that optimizes for storage. The sacrifice: they stored a given "item" of data (e.g., the information pertaining to a product in a product database) over several relations, and it takes time to assemble disjoint parts for a query. Many of Amazon's services demanded mostly primary-key reads on their data, and with speed
540-411: The DynamoDB team built a service it calls AutoAdmin to manage a database. AutoAdmin replaces a node when it stops responding by copying data from another node. When a partition exceeds any of its three thresholds (RCU, WCU, or 10GB), AutoAdmin will automatically add additional partitions to further segment the data. Just like indexing systems in the relational model, DynamoDB demands that any updates to
576-790: The Primary Index. When a Secondary Index has same Partition Key as Primary Index but a different Sort Key, it is called as the Local Secondary Index. When Primary Index and Secondary Index have different Partition Key, the Secondary index is known as the Global Secondary Index. To optimize DynamoDB performance, developers must carefully plan and analyze access patterns when designing their database schema. This involves creating tables and configuring indices accordingly. When querying non-indexed attributes, DynamoDB performs
612-531: The Primary Key, and no two items in a Table can have the same Primary Key. Primary Keys in Dynamo DB can consist of either one or two attributes. When a Primary Key is made up of only one attribute, it is called a Partition Key. Partition Keys determine the physical location of the associated item. In this case, no two items in a table can have the same Partition Key. When a Primary Key is made up of two attributes,
648-550: The Table. A DynamoDB Table is a logical grouping of items, which represent the data stored in this Table. Given the NoSQL nature of DynamoDB, the Tables do not require that all items in a Table conform to some predefined schema. An Item in DynamoDB is a set of attributes that can be uniquely identified in a Table. An Attribute is an atomic data entity that in itself is a Key-Value pair. The Key
684-541: The attributes used as partition and sort keys. Whereas relational databases offer robust query languages, DynamoDB offers just Put, Get, Update, and Delete operations. Put requests contain the TableName attribute and an Item attribute, which consists of all the attributes and values the item has. An Update request follows the same syntax. Similarly, to get or delete an item, simply specify a TableName and Key. DynamoDB uses hashing and B-trees to manage data. Upon entry, data
720-435: The default time being 30 seconds. If the queue is not told to delete the message during this time, the message becomes visible again and will be present. Each queue also consists of a retention parameter defaulting to 4 days. Any message residing in the queue for longer will be purged automatically. The retention can be modified from 1 minute up to 14 days by the user. If the retention is changed while messages are already in
756-518: The first one is called a "Partition Key" and the second is called a "Sort Key". As before, the Partition Key decides the physical Location of Data, but the Sort Key then decides the relative logical position of associated item's record inside that physical location. In this case, two items in a Table can have the same Partition Key, but no two items in a partition can have the same Sort Key. In other words,
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#1732844689344792-473: The leader node. Finally, the log propagator propagates the change to all indices. For each index, it grabs that index's primary key value from the item, then performs the same write on that index without log propagation. If the operation is an Update to a preexisting item, the updated attribute may serve as a primary key for an index, and thus the B tree for that index must update as well. B trees only handle insert, delete, and read operations, so in practice, when
828-475: The log propagator receives an Update operation, it issues both a Delete operation and a Put operation to all indices. Now suppose that a DynamoDB user issues a Get operation. The request router proceeds as before with authentication and authorization. Next, as above, we hash our partition key to arrive in the appropriate hash. Now, we encounter a problem: with three nodes in eventual consistency with one another, how can we decide which to investigate? DynamoDB offers
864-454: The messaging service. Well-known examples of messaging service technologies include IBM WebSphere MQ and Microsoft Message Queuing . Unlike these technologies, users do not need to maintain their own server. Amazon does it for them and sells the SQS service at a per-use rate. Amazon provides SDKs in several programming languages, including: A Java Message Service (JMS) 1.1 client for Amazon SQS
900-405: The most recent receipt handle is needed to delete the message. Furthermore, the receipt handle may have other validity constraints; for instance, the receipt handle may only be valid during the visibility timeout (see below). Once a message is delivered, it has a visibility timeout to prevent other components from consuming it. The "clock" for the visibility timeout starts once a message is sent,
936-399: The odds of an inconsistency? We'd need a write operation to return "success" and begin propagating to the third node, but not finish. We'd also need our Get to target this third node. This means a 1-in-3 chance of inconsistency within the write operation's propagation window. How long is this window? Any number of catastrophes could cause a node to fall behind, but in the vast majority of cases,
972-476: The overhead of provisioning hardware and scaling and re-partitioning data. Amazon's next iteration of NoSQL technology, DynamoDB, automated these database management operations. In DynamoDB, data is stored in Tables as items , and can be queried using indices . Items consist of a number of attributes which can belong to a number of data types , and are required to have a Key that is expected to be unique across
1008-615: The queue, any message that has been in the queue for longer than the new retention will be purged. Examples of companies that use SQS extensively include: Amazon DynamoDB Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed proprietary NoSQL database offered by Amazon.com as part of the Amazon Web Services portfolio. DynamoDB offers a fast persistent key–value datastore with built-in support for replication , autoscaling , encryption at rest, and on-demand backup among other features. Werner Vogels , CTO at Amazon.com, provided
1044-473: The recipient will receive the messages in the order they were sent by the sender. If message ordering is important, it is required that the application place sequencing information within the messages to allow for reordering after delivery. Messages can be of any type, and the data contained within is not restricted. Message bodies were initially limited to 8KB in size but was later raised to 64KB on 2010-07-01 and then 256KB on 2013-06-18. For larger messages,
1080-537: The third node is up-to-date within milliseconds of the leader. DynamoDB exposes performance metrics that help users provision it correctly and keep applications using DynamoDB running smoothly: These metrics can be tracked using the AWS Management Console, using the AWS command-line interface , or a monitoring tool integrating with Amazon CloudWatch . DynamoDB developers should: Languages and frameworks with
1116-590: The three nodes is designated the "leader node". All write operations travel first through the leader node before propagating, which makes writes consistent in DynamoDB. To maintain its status, the leader sends a "heartbeat" to each other node every 1.5 seconds. Should another node stop receiving heartbeats, it can initiate a new leader election. DynamoDB uses the Paxos algorithm to elect leaders. Amazon engineers originally avoided Dynamo due to engineering overheads like provisioning and managing partitions and nodes. In response,
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1188-517: The user has a few options to get around this limitation. A large message can be split into multiple segments that are sent separately, or the message data can be stored using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) or Amazon DynamoDB with just a pointer to the data transmitted in the SQS message. Amazon has made an Extended Client Library available for this purpose. The service supports both unlimited queues and message traffic. SQS does not automatically delete messages once they are sent. When
1224-472: The user submitting the request have the requisite permissions?" Assuming these checks pass, the system hashes the request's partition key to arrive in the appropriate partition. There are three nodes within, each with a copy of the partition's data. The system first writes to the leader node, then writes to a second node, then sends a "success" message, and finally continues propagating to the third node. Writes are consistent because they always travel first through
1260-480: The user two options when issuing a read: consistent and eventually consistent. A consistent read visits the leader node. But the consistency-availability trade-off rears its head again here: in read-heavy systems, always reading from the leader can overwhelm a single node and reduce availability. The second option, an eventually consistent read, selects a random node. In practice, this is where DynamoDB trades consistency for availability. If we take this route, what are
1296-450: Was released in December 2014. Amazon SQS provides authentication procedures to allow for secure handling of data. Amazon uses its Amazon Web Services (AWS) identification to do this, requiring users to have an AWS enabled account with Amazon.com . AWS assigns a pair of related identifiers, your AWS access keys, to an AWS enabled account to perform identification. The first identifier is
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