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NoSQL For Dummies
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NoSQL For Dummies

by Adam Fowler
February 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
456 pages
10h 3m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 29

Common Hybrid NoSQL Features

In This Chapter

arrow Combining features in one product

arrow Reducing cost

arrow Saving space

arrow Accelerating searches

NoSQL databases are evolving. Much as relational databases added data types over time — like character (text) long objects (CLOB), binary long objects (BLOB), and XML data — NoSQL databases are adding support for new types of data.

If you’ve read other parts of this book, by now you probably understand that a given business problem can be solved different ways in each of the databases (key-value, Bigtable, graph / triple stores, and document databases) covered in this book. storing a document for a unique ID, for example, is a feature of both key-value stores and document databases.

Various databases can, therefore, technically be called hybrid in that they support multiple paradigms of data management. I restricted the list of hybrid databases in this chapter to those that provide significant functionality in more than one area — note that support for a new data type doesn’t qualify as a hybrid database unless common management operations related ...

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ISBN: 9781118905746