Appendix 1Database Overview Tables

This book contains a wealth of information about each of the seven databases we discuss: PostgreSQL, HBase, MongoDB, CouchDB, Neo4j, DynamoDB, and Redis. In the pages that follow, you’ll find tables that tally up these databases along a number of dimensions to present an overview of what’s covered in more detail elsewhere in the book. Although the tables are not a replacement for a true understanding, they should provide you with an at-a-glance sense of what each database is capable of, where it falls short, and how it fits into the modern database landscape.

Genre

Version

Datatypes

Data Relations

PostgreSQL

Relational

9.1

Predefined and typed

Predefined

HBase

Columnar

1.4.1

Predefined and typed

None

MongoDB

Document

3.6 ...

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