NoSQL

Catch-all term for Data Store-s that are not Relational Data Base-s.

MongoDb, CouchDB, ThingDB, Redis, Tokyo Cabinet, Cassandra, HBase, Volde Mort, Ri Ak...

2009-11-06-NosqlTaxonomy

Apr'2015: some CTO friends are vouching for using Postgre[[SQL]] for this!

Why do this (vs SQL)?

often easier to scale out to multiple data servers (vs Sharding)
easier to change Data Model (SQL engines often write-lock entire table as field is added, etc.) (cf Schema-Less)
less Impedance Mismatch between data and objects (cf ORM) (I think this is least-important)

Edited: 2015-04-05 00:00:00 | Tweet this! | Search Twitter for discussion

Bill Seitz