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Home - Perceus. Home - MongoDB - 10gen Confluence. NoSQL and Document Oriented Databases. Chances are, you've spent your entire database life with relational databases. Data gets organized into columns, and stored in rows. You manipulate data with SQL (Structured Query Language) and there's really no other way to do it. There are competing SQL servers out there (MySQL, SQLite, etc), but they all more or less operate in the same way. But there's much more out there than SQL databases, especially with all the new software in the past few years. NoSQL is not a specific piece of software, but rather a philosophy. Horizontally Scalable The problem is that SQL doesn't scale well. Document-oriented databases (such as CouchDB and MongoDB) are designed for horizontal scalability. These types of databases operate on something similar to distributed hash tables (DHTs). One of the advantages here is that this is extremely easy to parallelize.

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