Models & patterns of non-relational databases

Posted Tue, 24/11/2009 - 01:49 by udib
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Many companies are starting to follow the large Web players (Google, Yahoo, FaceBook, Amazon &c) in adopting scalable non-relational databases, that can handle the extreme demands of web-scale. New "nosql" databases not only address these demands, but also do it efficiently without the huge traditional costs of RDBMS clusters & storage solutions.

 

Here's a nice explanation of the different models & patterns of these databases:

http://horicky.blogspot.com/2009/11/nosql-patterns.html

 

For more info, check-out the slides & videos from the recent nosql-east conference (the speakers are the authors of most of these databases):

https://nosqleast.com/2009/