January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
16h 56m
English
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NoSQL databases
NoSQL databases have met a sharp rise in popularity over the last couple of years. Their key value propositions are as follows:
- They are well suited for crunching massive volumes of data.
- By design, NoSQL database systems can effortlessly scale both vertically and horizontally. As a matter of fact, most NoSQL database systems promise a linear increase in performance as more nodes are added to the database cluster.
- More advanced NoSQL solutions can scale even across data centers and include support for automatically routing client requests to the nearest data center.
However, as we all know, there is no such thing as a free lunch. To achieve this performance boost, NoSQL databases have to sacrifice something! Being distributed ...