1. Different Databases for Different Requirements
“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.”
—HARRY S. TRUMAN
Topics Covered In This Chapter
Early Database Management Systems
The Relational Database Revolution
Motivations for Not Just/No SQL (NoSQL) Databases
The history of information technology is a story of increasingly faster computation and greater volumes of data storage. An important subplot of this story is the evolution of data management technologies. Anyone who started to work with data management systems in the past two decades might understandably assume that data management is synonymous with relational database management systems. It is not. Prior to the advent ...
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