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management systems). Within the broad category of NoSQL database, large
NoSQL families can be identied, which differ from each other for storage
and indexing strategy:
• Key-value stores: high scalable solution, which allows one to obtain
good speed in the presence of large lists of elements, such as stock
quotes; examples are Amazon Dynamo [Amazon Dynamo] and
Oracle Berkeley [Oracle Berkeley].
• Wide column stores (big tables): are databases in which the columns
are grouped, where keys and values can be composed (as HBase
[Apache HBase], Cassandra [Apache Cassandra]). Very effective to
cope with time series and with data coming from multiple sources,
sensors, device, and website, needing high speed. Cons ...