Best database solution for Django on AWS

Question

Good morning,

I am currently looking at deploying a Django app on a EC2 instance, but everything is getting too confusing for me! I understand that Django has built-in implementation for MySQL, PSQL, and SQLite. Now, Amazon has RDS (MySQL), SimpleDB and DynamoDB. Do you guys have any recommendation on what should be used? I want something that is scalable for the future and bullet-proof. AWS provides a python API for its SimpleDB and DynamoDB. Will that work nicely with Django?!

Thanks a lot!

EDIT: I would rather be focusing on an overall solution that will be bulletproof, efficient and fast, and not too complicated. As I plan for more people to work on the system, I don't really want something that is complicated and hard to maintan. I would rather spend more time implementing and installing things, but at the end, the solution will be faster and easy to understand and work with. (IE.: Querying the DB will be straight-forward and no hacks around).

Answer 1

SimpleDB and DynamoDB are NoSQL so you'll need django-nonrel to deal with it and have no guarantees if everything will work fine. But if you need to use NoSQL - there is some 3rd-party modules for Django.

RDS is MySQL so you can use Django's default MySQL driver, and ORM, and admin and so on. It seems a good solution but you can't tweak or update these MySQL instances.

If your DB is not big and heavy yet, you can set up a local mysql instance on your EC2 and move it to RDS if you will need to grow.