November 9, 2010  12:31 PM

MongoDB, the easy way to try out NoSQL – Part 2

Posted by: Sasirekha R
Cloud, Consistency, MongoDB, NoSQL, RDBMS, Replication, Sharding

MongoDB, the NoSQL favourite - Part 2

In this blog, shall cover some more interesting features of MongoDB. MongoDB provides free license (A-GPL) across platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Windows, and Free BSD & Solaris). ...

November 9, 2010  12:19 PM

MongoDB, the easy way to try out NoSQL – Part 1

Posted by: Sasirekha R
Document Store, MongoDB, NoSQL, RDBMS

MongoDB, the NoSQL favourite - Part 1

MongoDB seems to be the favourite choice when NoSQL is considered - mainly due to it being simple and more close to object oriented concepts and relational database usage. MongoDB aims to bridge...

October 4, 2010  5:41 AM

Key-value Pair (KVP) – the backbone of NoSQL

Posted by: Sasirekha R
Key/Value Pair, KVP, memcached, NoSQL, RDBMS, Redis, set

Key-value Pair (KVP) - the backbone of NoSQL

Most NOSQL databases- BigTable, Hadoop, CouchDB, SimpleDB, memcached, Redis - use key-value pair (KVP) concept. A key-value pair (KVP) is a set of two linked data items: 1. a key (say account number or...

September 3, 2010  3:01 AM

NoSQL – Not Only SQL – to co-exist with SQL

Posted by: Sasirekha R
Bigtable, NoSQL, Not Only SQL, RDBMS, relational, web 2.0

NoSQL - Not Only SQL - to co-exist with SQL

NoSQL - as the name itself suggests - covers all forms of data management solutions that are not "strictly" relational databases. NoSQL is defined as the "next generation databases mostly addressing the points...