Chapter 29
Common Hybrid NoSQL Features
In This Chapter
Combining features in one product
Reducing cost
Saving space
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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