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An Overview of the
NoSQL World
Liang Zhao, Sherif Sakr, and Anna Liu
Over the past decade, rapidly growing Internet-based services such as e-mail, blog-
ging, social networking, search, and e-commerce have substantially redened the
way consumers communicate, access contents, share information and purchase prod-
ucts. Relational database management systems (RDBMS) have been considered as
the one-size-ts-all solution for data persistence and retrieval for decades. However,
the ever-increasing need for scalability and new application requirements have cre-
ated new challenges for traditional RDBMS. Recently, a new generation of low-cost,
high-per ...