Policy: AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Performance Efficiency > PERF 04. How do you select your database solution? > Understand data characteristics

Understand the different characteristics of data in your workload. Determine if the workload requires transactions, how it interacts with data, and what its performance demands are. Use this data to select the best performing database approach for your workload (for example, relational databases, NoSQL Key-value, document, wide column, graph, time series, or in-memory storage).

See Understand data characteristics for more information.

Resource Types

This policy targets the following resource types:

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Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Performance Efficiency > PERF 04. How do you select your database solution?

Controls

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Skip`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Skip` `True` `False`

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/turbot#/control/categories/other

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/perf04UnderstandChar

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/perf04UnderstandChar") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/perf04UnderstandChar'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/perf04UnderstandChar'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/perf04UnderstandChar"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/perf04UnderstandChar"