Introduction to NoSQL
For storing the data in organized manner we use the traditional relational databases and in these databases the information is stored in the form tables. NoSQL is an abbreviation or a short form for ‘Not only SQL’. Carlo Strozzi in 1998 for the first time used this name to refer their open source relational database, which didn’t exposed its SQL interface. As this was different from the relational databases so on later stage he suggested to name it NoRel (No Relational) instead of NoSQL (Not only SQL). As the name indicates, in NoSQL we use additional methods to store data. NoSQL as compared to the traditional relational databases use different data structures like Key-value, document-oriented, Column oriented or graph oriented. In comparison to traditional databases these data structures offer faster operations in NoSQL. The use of NoSQL is dependent on what problem we aim to solve with it.
The sole purpose of existence of such databases is approach to simplicity in design, better horizontal scaling and greater control over the availability of data. See Figure 3 for scaling. The use of other means of storing data and different access mechanism, provide faster access to data based on the problem which the organization aims and this is also the reason NoSQL databases is famous for use in big-data and real-time web applications.
Previously NoSQL databases lack the ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability) which ensures that transactions are made in reliably. Whereas the new era NoSQL databases have made this a part of their system, some of such databases include FairCom’s ctree-ACE, Google’s Spanner and FoundationDB.
Types of NoSQL databases:
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...ike smartphones, tablets, etc. It has the ability to synchronize the data when device is back online, making it suitable for those who aim to achieve the goal of synchronization in their problem solution.
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CouchDB is an open source database which was written in Erlang, which has the ability to synchronize the data between offline and online devices by using replication. It uses the JavaScript as a query language and makes use of Futon to provide the administrative controls. It has some of the very useful features like ACID semantics that were not available in other NoSQL databases. Has the ease of use in different operations. It keeps the data in form of documents as opposed to the traditional databases which use tables. Each document is identified by its unique id. CouchDB supports eventual consistency, REST API, distributed architecture and MapReduce.
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NoSQL are called non-relational databases, which is not created by any software companies. The examples for NoSQL are Dynamo created by Amazon, Bigtable created by Google, and Cassandra created by Facebook. NoSQL supports...
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NoSQL are designed to expand transparently to take advantages of new nodes and they are built using low cost hardware, so cost shouldn’t be a problem. Big Data In today’s world, the transactions are so frequent that the data generated out of these transactions is huge. It is very difficult to store these huge transactional data in the traditional database systems. NoSQL with its elastic scaling feature, it is possible to increase the size of the database to store huge amount of transactional data. All the challenges involved in processing these huge transactional data can be overcome with NoSQL database systems. No DBA required NoSQL database systems can handle many of the things on its own. Dedicated database administrators are not required to handle day to day database operations. Since these systems have simpler data models, automated repair etc., No administrator is necessary to handle these things. Economics Traditional databases costs more money. The amount of space that you get on buying traditional database systems is less when compared to the NoSQL database system. In other words, cost per gigabyte per second or transaction per second is many times less when compared to traditional database management system. Flexible data model NoSQL database systems have flexible data models, unlike traditional relational database management systems. If any changes to the data model in traditional database systems, then it may bring down whole database system or the functions might not work as expected. But this is not the case with NoSQL database system. NoSQL has far more relaxed data model which allows the user to add a new column to store data without any much fuss. NoSQL key value stores and document the database virtually in a data
In the past, most of the databases were centralized, protected, and kept in a one location using a complicated database system known as centralized database. Nowadays, with the new technology of personal computers and cell phones, a new sort of database has appeared, and it seems that majority of people are pleasant with it, even if their private data is split everywhere. Many enterprises had changed their databases from the centralized databases, into the distributed database system, since it meets the demand of accessing and processing the data in the organization. Distributed database technology is considered as one of the most remarkable developments in this century (Ozsu, 1991; Rahimi & Haug, 2010; Cain, 2012). Distributed databases are basically a collection of databases that are divided on multiple computers which are connected logically but located in different physical locations, and each site manages its own local data. In contrast, centralized database is a database that is located in a one location and it is considered as a big single database (Connolly & Begg, 2010).
Databases are becoming as common in the workplace as the stapler. Businesses use databases to keep track of payroll, vacations, inventory, and a multitude of other taske of which are to vast to mention here. Basically businesses use databases anytime a large amount of data must be stored in such a manor that it can easily be searched, categorized and recalled in different means that can be easily read and understood by the end user. Databases are used extensively where I work. In fact, since Hyperion Solutions is a database and financial intelligence software developing company we produce one. To keep the material within scope I shall narrow the use of databases down to what we use just in the Orlando office of Hyperion Solutions alone.