NoSQL

A comparison for database students

Created by David Der / @davidder

1970 - Databases

30+ years of databases

Early 2000's - Web 2.0

What if we could
Scale Horizontally?

Big Data? Three V's

Volume

Velocity

Variety

CAP Theorem

Consistency
Availability
Partition tolerance

NOSQL Sacrifices

Joins and complex querying
Transactional processing and rollbacks
No native data constraints

NOSQL Advantages

Horizontal scale
High availability
Flexible schema

NoSQL Flavors

Columnar

Document

Key Value

Graph

BSON Document Store

Sharding

Embedded Documents

Geospacial queries: Lat / Long