NoSQL-Konzepte

To begin the course, you’ll learn the differences between NoSQL and relational databases. After that, you'll discover key-value databases, their advantages, and their limitations. You’ll recognize the situations in which key-value databases are suitable. You’ll end this chapter by studying the case of Editoo, a company that reduced its downtime and improved its performance thanks to the Redis key-value database.

In this chapter, you'll learn the basics of document databases. Then, you'll identify the advantages and limitations of this kind of database, and you’ll recognize the situations in which document databases are suitable. Finally, you’ll end this chapter with the Shutterfly case study. They used the MongoDB document database to reduce latency and accelerate time to market.

You'll look at column family databases, analyzing the advantages and limitations of this kind of database. You'll also study the situations where column family databases are suitable. Finally, you'll end this chapter with the case study of Bigmate, a company that used the Apache Cassandra database to handle millions of operations by concurrent users each second.

This final chapter analyzes graph databases. You'll study the advantages and limitations of this kind of database and the situations where these are most useful. You'll end this course by looking into Gousto, a company that obtained better cost control thanks to the Neo4j database.