As organizations start employing big data and NoSQL-based solutions across a number of projects, a data layer comprising of RDBMSs alone is no longer the best solution for all the use cases in a modern enterprise application. The following figure illustrates a situation that is rapidly disappearing across the industry:
A more typical scenario comprising of multiple types of data stores is shown in the following figure. Applications today use several types of data stores that represent the best fit for a given set of use cases. Using multiple data storage technologies, chosen based upon the way data is being ...
