NoSQL database
A NoSQL database is a database system organized primarily around nonrelational data models or access patterns rather than relational tables.
Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core
NoSQL is a class of nonrelational database systems that use flexible data models such as documents, key-value collections, graphs, or wide columns.
- How it is used
- Frames NoSQL as an alternative database model for selecting storage behind a web API.
- How deep it goes
- Defines document storage and relationship differences, but stops short of detailed product-specific behavior.
- Examples
- Uses MyBGList board-game records, CSV imports, document collections, and paired SQL and NoSQL schema diagrams.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate SQL and NoSQL choices against dataset size, schema consistency, scaling needs, caching, paging, and framework support.
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ScyllaDB in Action
A NoSQL database is a non-relational database system that uses data models other than the traditional relational table model.
- How it is used
- Positions non-relational storage as a scalable, distributed alternative to relational databases.
- How deep it goes
- Explains the definition, wide-column storage, horizontal scaling, availability, consistency, and BASE-versus-ACID trade-offs.
- Examples
- Uses ScyllaDB storage comparisons and ONE, QUORUM, and ALL consistency levels as concrete examples.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate distributed database choices by comparing scalability, fault tolerance, availability, and consistency requirements.
Amazon Web Services in Action, Third Edition: An in-depth guide to AWS
A NoSQL database is a nonrelational database designed for data models and scaling approaches that do not depend on the traditional relational table model.
- How it is used
- Uses nonrelational data models for scalable web applications and exposes managed database capabilities through an API.
- How deep it goes
- Defines four NoSQL types and explains DynamoDB architecture, scaling, application fit, administration, capacity, and backups.
- Examples
- Uses a web application querying DynamoDB, client-side error tracking, AWS service diagrams, and Free Tier storage limits.
- What you can do after
- Apply DynamoDB in an application, configure access and capacity, monitor usage, and create backups for recovery.
Think Like a CTO
A NoSQL database stores data without requiring the fixed tabular structure and schema constraints typical of relational databases.
- How it is used
- Positions NoSQL as a storage option when data does not fit the uniform structure of relational tables.
- How deep it goes
- Defines documents and collections and contrasts their structure with tables, without detailing database operations or implementation.
- Examples
- Illustrates a collection whose documents can differ radically and need no placeholders for missing data.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate/understand whether varying document structures make NoSQL worth considering instead of relational tables.
Java Persistence with Spring Data and Hibernate epub
A NoSQL database is a nonrelational database system designed around data models and access patterns other than the traditional relational table model.
- How it is used
- Frames NoSQL databases as flexible-schema persistence options and demonstrates accessing them through MongoDB tools or portable persistence APIs.
- How deep it goes
- Defines major NoSQL data models and demonstrates JPA transactions, entity lookup, JPQL queries, and resulting MongoDB collections.
- Examples
- Uses MongoDB documents, Compass filters, JPA entity tests, MongoDB collections, and JPQL queries over users, items, and bids.
- What you can do after
- Apply NoSQL persistence through MongoDB Compass, JPA, JPQL, and Hibernate OGM while preserving transaction boundaries.
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Microsoft Azure in Action
A NoSQL database is a nonrelational database designed to store and retrieve data using flexible structures rather than a fixed relational schema.
- How it is used
- Supports globally distributed product catalogs, customer traffic, real-time analytics, and rapidly changing application features.
- How deep it goes
- Explains schema flexibility, denormalization, embedded documents, and design trade-offs, then points toward partitioning without detailing its algorithms.
- Examples
- Uses an Alpaca-Ma-Bags product catalog, variable product records, embedded supplier details, and a complete product document.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate and design flexible document models while weighing read performance, scalability, consistency, and cost.
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Building Distributed Applications that Work
A non-relational database system that stores and accesses data using models other than relational tables and does not rely primarily on SQL.
- How it is used
- Guides storage selection by matching non-relational models to workload needs and situates NoSQL among Aspire storage integrations.
- How deep it goes
- Defines NoSQL by its non-reliance on relational tables or SQL, distinguishes four models and their workloads, and stops short of setup details.
- Examples
- Illustrates four models with MongoDB, Redis, Neo4j, and Cassandra, and associates them with cache, warehousing, social, and logistics workloads.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate storage choices by matching key-value, column-family, graph, and document models to their stated workload strengths.
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Related concepts
- MongoDBincludes · MongoDB is a document-oriented database management system that stores data as BSON documents, typically organized into collections.
- SQLcontrasts with · SQL is a standardized declarative language for defining, querying, and manipulating data and structures in relational database systems.
- Cosmos DBincludes · Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed, multimodel cloud database service, supporting multiple data models and APIs.
- ScyllaDBincludes · ScyllaDB is a distributed wide-column database compatible with Cassandra’s data model and protocol, designed for high scalability and availability.
- table storageincludes · Azure Table Storage is a NoSQL data store that stores structured, nonrelational data as schemaless entities in tables, addressed by partition and row keys.
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