Databases Reference
In-Depth Information
NoSQL: It's about
making intelligent choices
This chapter covers
What's NoSQL?
NoSQL business drivers
NoSQL case studies
The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a
factor of two per year...Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to
continue, if not to increase.
—
Gordon Moore, 1965
…Then you better start swimmin'…Or you'll sink like a stone…For the times they are
a-changin'.
—
Bob Dylan
In writing this topic we have two goals: first, to describe NoSQL databases, and sec-
ond, to show how NoSQL systems can be used as standalone solutions or to aug-
ment current
SQL
systems to solve business problems. Though we invite anyone
who has an interest in NoSQL to use this as a guide, the information, examples,
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