The NoSQL primer
Not only SQL or NoSQL, as it is popularly called, was coined by Carlo Strozzi in 1998 and was reintroduced by Eric Evans in 2009. This is an exciting area in data handling which, in a way, has filled up the many gaps existing in the data handling layer. Before the emergence of NoSQL as an alternate choice to store data, SQL-oriented databases (RDBMS) were the only choice available for the developers to position or retrofit their data. In other words, RDBMS was one hammer to nail all data problems. When NoSQL and its different categories started emerging, data models and data sizes that were not meant for RDBMS started finding NoSQL as a perfect datastore. There was also a shift in attention from a consistency standpoint; there ...
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