Chapter Four

NoSQL Security

Neha Gupta; Rashmi Agrawal    Faculty of Computer Applications, Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies Faridabad, Faridabad, India

Abstract

The increased demand of Big Data and Cloud Computing technologies has forced the organizations to move from relational databases to nonrelational databases like NoSQL. A NoSQL database, also referred as non-SQL or nonrelational or not only SQL database, is scalable, distributed, and highly reliable and has been designed to support the requirements of modern web-based applications. However, security remains a very challenging issue even in NoSQL database as security challenges that were inherent in the previous databases have not spared even NoSQL. The key ...

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