April 2015
Beginner to intermediate
328 pages
11h 1m
English
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Chapter 11. Serving layer: Illustration
This chapter covers
- ElephantDB as an example of a serving layer database
- Architecture of ElephantDB
- Drawbacks of ElephantDB
- Using ElephantDB for SuperWebAnalytics.com
Having covered the requirements of the serving layer, we can now consider an example of a database built specifically for use as a serving layer database. As with all the illustration chapters, no new theory is introduced in this chapter; it instead serves to map the concepts you’ve learned to the nuts and bolts of real tooling.
We’ve mentioned that the available tooling for the serving layer lags behind the ideal possibilities, and that fact will be evident as you build the serving layer for SuperWebAnalytics.com. You’ll learn to ...