Cosmos DB for MongoDB Developers: Migrating to Azure Cosmos DB and Using the MongoDB API

© Manish Sharma 2018

Manish SharmaCosmos DB for MongoDB Developershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3682-6_1

1. Why NoSQL?

Manish Sharma¹ 

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Faridabad, Haryana, India

 

Since schooling most of us are taught to structure information, such that it can be represented in tabular form. But not all information can follow that structure, hence the existence of NULL values. The NULL value represents cells without information. To avoid NULLs, we must split one table into multiples, thus introducing the concept of normalization. In normalization, we split the tables, based on the level of normalization we select. These levels are 1NF (first normal form), 2NF, 3NF, BCNF (Boyce–Codd normal form, or 3.5NF), 4NF, and 5NF, to name just a few. Every level dictates ...