Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Advantages and drawbacks

Given the high availability and concurrent user focus behind most NoSQL options, it should come as no great surprise that they are better suited than their RDBMS counterparts for applications where availability and the ability to scale is important. Those properties are even more important in big data applications, and applications that live in the cloud—as evidenced by the fact that the major cloud providers all have their own offerings in that space, as well as providing starting-points for some well-known NoSQL options:

• Amazon (AWS):
  • DynamoDB
• Google:
  • Bigtable (for big data needs)
  • Datastore
• Microsoft (Azure):
  • Cosmos DB (formerly DocumentDB)
  • Azure Table Storage

The ability to more or less arbitrarily define ...