NoSQL Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Emerging World of Polyglot Persistence
by Pramod J. Sadalage, Martin Fowler
Preface
We’ve spent some twenty years in the world of enterprise computing. We’ve seen many things change in languages, architectures, platforms, and processes. But through all this time one thing has stayed constant—relational databases store the data. There have been challengers, some of which have had success in some niches, but on the whole the data storage question for architects has been the question of which relational database to use.
There is a lot of value in the stability of this reign. An organization’s data lasts much longer than its programs (at least that’s what people tell us—we’ve seen plenty of very old programs out there). It’s valuable to have a stable data storage that’s well understood and accessible from many application ...
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