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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 36

Ten Reasons Developers Love NoSQL

In This Chapter

arrow Saving time

arrow Saving money

arrow Saving headaches

The popularity of NoSQL databases arises from the sheer number of developers who are excited about using them. Developers see NoSQL as an enabling and liberating technology. Unlike the traditional relational approach, NoSQL gives you a way to work with data that is closer to the application than the relational data model.

Developers adopt NoSQL technologies for many reasons, some of which are highlighted in this chapter.

No Need to Write SQL

Writing Structured Query Language (SQL) — and doing it well — is the bane of many enterprise developers’ existence. This pain is because writing very complex queries with multiple joins across related tables isn’t easy to do. Moreover, in light of regular database changes over time, maintaining complex query code is a job in and of itself.

Enterprise developers have invented a number of ways to avoid writing SQL. One of the most popular ways is through the use of the Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) library, Hibernate. Hibernate takes a configuration file and one or more objects and abstracts away the nasty SQL so that developers don’t have to use ...

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ISBN: 9781118905746