This structure supports the operations as listed below.
•Insert (key, value)
•Update (key)
•Delete (key)
•Fetch (key)
Some examples of key-value store products are Riak, Redis, Windows Azure table storage,
Amazon Web Services SimpleDB and DynamoDB.
5.3.2Wide Column Stores or Columnar Stores
Let us now take a look at wide column stores and see how they differ.
Let’s refer to Figure 5.3, we see that wide column stores have tables. Notice that the tables do
not belong to a database and the tables have rows. The rows have super-columns or column
families, and then columns within them. So, the super-columns are ...
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