Skip to Content
NoSQL for Mere Mortals®
book

NoSQL for Mere Mortals®

by Dan Sullivan
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced
650 pages
10h 47m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from NoSQL for Mere Mortals®

4. Key-Value Database Terminology

“I always try to think of a vocabulary to match different musical situations.”

—ROSCOE MITCHELLJAZZ COMPOSER AND SAXOPHONIST

Topics Covered In This Chapter

Key-Value Database Data Modeling Terms

Key-Value Architecture Terms

Key-Value Implementation Terms

This chapter is different from the first three chapters of this book. The intent of this chapter is to provide an explanation of important terms used when discussing key-value databases. Introducing terminology of a new domain, like NoSQL databases, presents something of a chicken-and-egg problem.

Which should come first? Should you learn about the basic ideas of key-value databases and then delve into a more detailed understanding of the terms and concepts that ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Microservices in Action

Microservices in Action

Paulo A Pereira, Morgan Bruce
Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week

Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week

Sudarshan Kadambi, Xun (Brian) Wu

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780134029894Purchase book