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Where NoSQL thrives - NoSQL Tutorial
From the course: NoSQL Essential Training
Where NoSQL thrives
- [Instructor] Even though NoSQL is an umbrella term for non-relational databases, and the different NoSQL databases are specialized to a certain extent, there are general areas where NoSQL thrives in comparison to relational. And in general, these areas include when you need scalability, flexibility, and speed in your application. And you might say well that's every application, but there are always trade-offs. What exactly will we be trading? Well remember CAP theorem in chapter one? CAP stands for consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. And CAP theorem states we can only have two out of three of those items. Traditional relational databases don't really offer partition tolerance. Only NoSQL databases offer this along with subspecialties generally related to availability or consistency depending on the NoSQL database chosen. The promise of partition tolerance means our whole system won't go down even…
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