Appendix Answers to Review Questions

Chapter 1: History of Analytics and Big Data

  1. C. A is incorrect as Amazon S3 is great for storing massive amounts of data but is not suitable for real-time data ingestion and visualization.

    B is incorrect as Amazon Redshift is a good tool for large-scale data inserts and scans. However, real-time querying is not a great use case for Amazon Redshift due to potential concurrency limits.

    C is correct as Elasticsearch is the right technology for operational analytics.

    D is incorrect as Amazon DynamoDB is a technology that can provide sub-second latency for your applications, and it is recommended when you have well-known access paths. Typical dashboard applications run a scan of the data, which is not ...

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