Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
Increasing agility
with NoSQL
This chapter covers
Measuring agility
How NoSQL increases agility
Using document stores to avoid
object-relational mapping
Change is no longer just incremental. Radical “nonlinear change” which brings
about a different order is becoming more frequent.
—Cheshire Henbury,
“The Problem”
Can your organization quickly adapt to changing business conditions? Can your
computer systems rapidly respond to increased workloads? Can your developers
quickly add features to your applications to take advantage of new business oppor-
tunities? Can nonprogrammers maintain business rules without needing help from
software developers? Have you ever wanted to build a web application that works
with complex data, but you didn't have the budget for teams of database modelers,
SQL
developers, database administrators, and Java developers?
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