NoSQL databases - Introduction
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Does NoSQL Need Standardization? - ReadWriteCloud
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NOSQL Databases
It's a truism that we should choose the right tool for the job .
What the heck are you actually using NoSQL for?
10 things you should know about NoSQL databases
Takeaway: The relational database model has prevailed for decades, but a new type of database — known as NoSQL — is gaining attention in the enterprise. Here’s an overview of its pros and cons. For a quarter of a century, the relational database (RDBMS) has been the dominant model for database management.
NoSQL: Comparing the Different Solutions
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Earlier this month Belgian computer science student Dory Thibault posted a slide deck with the surprising results of a benchmark comparing Cassandra , HBase , MongoDB and Riak . The benchmarks are a part of his mater's thesis, and the slides were difficult to interpret without the accompanying oral presentation. Thibault has now open-sourced the benchmarks so that others can check his work. "I would like to say that all of this benchmark is an idea that is quite recent and I'm still working on it," Thibault writes . "That means that there could be bugs in my code, errors in my configuration of the various clusters and other kinds of problems."
NoSQL Benchmark Open-Sourced
I like this article: while it is for sure not the definitive guide to NoSQL, it is a short description mostly about facts that people new to the field can use to get an idea about what a good candidate could be for initial experimentation, given a defined problem to solve. That said I think that picking the good database is something you can do only with a lot of work. Picking good technologies for your project is hard work , so there is to try one, and another and so forth, and even reconsidering after a few years (or months?)
Cassandra vs MongoDB vs CouchDB vs Redis vs Riak comparison
Christof Strauch, from Stuttgart Media University, has written an incredible 120+ page paper titled NoSQL Databases as an introduction and overview to NoSQL databases . The paper was written between 2010-06 and 2011-02, so it may be a bit out of date, but if you are looking to take in the NoSQL world in one big gulp, this is your chance.
NoSQL Introduction and Overview
This is a guest post by Frédéric Faure (architect at Ysance ), you can follow him on twitter .
SQL + NoSQL = Yes !
