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Scalability Patterns: Best Practices for Designing High Volume Websites
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Scalability Patterns: Best Practices for Designing High Volume Websites

by Chander Dhall
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
167 pages
3h 45m
English
Apress
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© Chander Dhall 2018
Chander DhallScalability Patternshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1073-4_5

5. Relational vs. No-Sql

Chander Dhall1 
(1)
Austin, Texas, USA
 

Quite contrary to what it sounds, No-Sql means Not Only Sql. So far in the book we have been assuming that the persistence layer is only relational database or a scaled-out version of it. Before we actually talk about the architecture using No-Sql databases, it’s worth understanding the differences and appreciating the different kinds of No-Sql databases out there and understanding the different strengths they bring to the table. No-Sql databases are of many different kinds. The name given to the entire category of databases is kind of unfair. In my personal experience, some very good architects ...

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