What's the best NoSQL database?

Typical spreadsheet data.

The most similar to a SQL
Save samples at periodic intervals? database, but without joins.
ID - Name - E-mail - Phone
xx - dude - [email protected] - 01122
yy - name - e@mail - 09423

Yes No

For flexible data: variable

fields + searchable by
content (usually represented
TimeSeries Database Data in Columns ala. CSV as JSON).
Example: log entries.
Warning: Most data are fixed
scheme and therefore better
suited to a columnar store.

single node distributed Yes No

Best indicated to store

large files or binary data
(1MB-1GB).
Banks have that. Example: Profile picture,
InfluxDB Columnar Datastore Searchable Documents recorded voice message,
The open-source world does not. attachments.
Note: Small blob (<10kB) can
be stored fine in almost any
database.

Yes No

Cassandra AWS DynamoDB Google BigTable Document Datastore Object Storage Specialized database for
graphs.

Yes No

For simple key=value data,

quick and efficient by
nature.
ElasticSearch Object Datastore Graph Database Well known for its usage in
cache layers.
id=value
namespace-id-something=value

mono-region worldwide Yes No

A specialized case of key

value store where keys are
organized in a tree.
AWS S3 Google S3 Graph Database Save a key=value Special: Allow to operate on
trees, not just individual
keys.
/the/key/is/a/path = data

paid not paid Yes No

Neo4j OrientDB KeyValue Store Tree Database

Yes No

Riak Redis Memcached Tree Database Other

cool name in-memory sharded went bankrupt NOT a database

database PostgreSQL

BerkeleyDB Aerospike VoltDB CitusDB RethinkDB MongoDB