NoSQL (Not only SQL) databases are non-relational and distributed databases that are designed to scale horizontally and handle large volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data. NoSQL databases are schema-less, open source, and distributed across commodity servers which allows for horizontal scaling and high availability. Common uses of NoSQL databases include big data applications, social networking feeds, log and time-series data where requirements include scalability, flexibility and high performance over traditional SQL-based relational databases.
NoSQL (Not only SQL) databases are non-relational and distributed databases that are designed to scale horizontally and handle large volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data. NoSQL databases are schema-less, open source, and distributed across commodity servers which allows for horizontal scaling and high availability. Common uses of NoSQL databases include big data applications, social networking feeds, log and time-series data where requirements include scalability, flexibility and high performance over traditional SQL-based relational databases.
NoSQL (Not only SQL) databases are non-relational and distributed databases that are designed to scale horizontally and handle large volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data. NoSQL databases are schema-less, open source, and distributed across commodity servers which allows for horizontal scaling and high availability. Common uses of NoSQL databases include big data applications, social networking feeds, log and time-series data where requirements include scalability, flexibility and high performance over traditional SQL-based relational databases.
NoSQL (Not only SQL) databases are non-relational and distributed databases that are designed to scale horizontally and handle large volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data. NoSQL databases are schema-less, open source, and distributed across commodity servers which allows for horizontal scaling and high availability. Common uses of NoSQL databases include big data applications, social networking feeds, log and time-series data where requirements include scalability, flexibility and high performance over traditional SQL-based relational databases.
What is NoSQL? NoSQL (commonly known as "Not Just SQL") represents a completely different database framework that can achieve high-performance and agile processing of large-scale information. In other words, it is a database infrastructure, very suitable for the huge needs of big data. The efficiency of NoSQL can be achieved because, unlike highly structured relational databases, NoSQL databases are inherently unstructured, which makes up for the strict consistency requirements for speed and agility. NoSQL focuses on the concept of distributed databases, where unstructured data can be stored on multiple processing nodes, and usually on multiple servers. This distributed architecture allows NoSQL databases to scale horizontally; as the data continues to grow, just add more hardware to keep up without reducing performance. NoSQL Distributed Database Infrastructure has always been a solution for handling some of the largest data warehouses on the planet, such as Google, Amazon, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Where is NoSQL used?
NoSQL databases are widely used in big data and other real-time web applications. NoSQL databases is used to stock log data which can then be pulled for analysis. Likewise, it is used to store social media data and all such data which cannot be stored and analyzed comfortably in RDBMS.
Features and advantages of NoSQL
Few features of NoSQL databases are as follows: 1. They are open source. 2. They are non-relational. 3. They are distributed. 4. They are schema-less. 5. They are cluster friendly. 6. They are born out of 21st century web applications. NoSQL databases provide various important advantages over traditional relational databases. A few core features of NoSQL are listed here, which apply to most NoSQL databases.
Log Analysis
Where to used NoSQL? Social Networking Feeds
Time based data
Non-relational data storage
systems
No fixed table schema
NoSQL No joins
No multi-document transactions
Relaxes one or more ACID properties
Advantages of NoSQL Database
Schema Agnostic NoSQL databases are schema agnostic. Easy to designing your schema before you can store data in NoSQL databases. You can start coding, and store and retrieve data without knowing how the database stores and works internally. Schema agnosticism may be the most significant difference between NoSQL and relational databases. Scalability NoSQL databases support horizontal scaling methodology that makes it easy to add or reduce capacity quickly without tinkering with commodity hardware. This eliminates the tremendous cost and complexity of manual sharing that is necessary when attempting to scale RDBMS. Performance Some databases are designed to operate best (or only) with specialized storage and processing hardware. With a NoSQL database, you can increase performance by simply adding cheaper servers, called commodity servers. This helps organizations to continue to deliver reliably fast user experiences with a predictable return on investment for adding resources again, without the overhead associated with manual sharing. High Availability NoSQL databases are generally designed to ensure high availability and avoid the complexity that comes with a typical RDBMS architecture, which relies on primary and secondary nodes. Some ‘distributed’ NoSQL databases use a masterless architecture that automatically distributes data equally among multiple resources so that the application remains available for both read and write operations, even when one node fails.
Using NoSQL to Manage Big Data
The main reason behind organization moving towards a NoSQL solution and leaving the RDBMS system behind is the requirement to analyze a large volume of data. It is any business problem which could be so large and single processor cannot manage it. We need to move single processor environment to distributed computing environment due to big data problem. It has own problems and challenges while solving big data problems.
Big Data Use-case
Typical big data use-cases: 1. Bulk Image Processing 2. Public Web Page Data 3. Remote Sensor Data 4. Event Log Data 5. Mobile Phone Data 6. Social Media Data 7. Game Data
Bigdata Use-case Solutions
Scaling linearly with growing data size by becoming an efficient with input and output. Organizations not able to afford to hire many people to run the server, so becoming operationally efficient. Not every business can afford a full time java developer to write on demand queries, so its require that reports and analysis be performed by nonprogrammers using simple tools. Meeting the challenges of distributed computing, with consideration of latency between systems and eventual node failures. Meeting both the need of overnight batch processing economy of scale and time critical event processing.
Pre-defned schema Dynamic schema for unstructured data
Table based databases Document-based or graph-based or wide column
store or key–value pairs databases Vertically scalable (by increasing Horizontally scalable (by creating a cluster of system resources) commodity machines) Uses SQL Uses UnQL (Unstructured Query Language) Not preferred for large datasets Largely preferred for large datasets
Not a best ft for hierarchical data Best ft for hierarchical storage as it follows the key– value pair of storing data similar to JSON (Java Script Object Notation) Excellent support from vendors Relies heavily on community support
Supports complex querying and Does not have good support for complex querying data keeping needs Can be confgured for strong Few support strong consistency (e.g., MongoDB), consistency some others can be confgured for eventual consistency (e.g., Cassandra) Examples: Oracle, DB2, MySQL, MS Examples: MongoDB, HBase, Cassandra, Redis, SQL, PostgreSQL, etc. Neo4j, CouchDB, Couchbase, Riak, etc.
