Showing posts with label non-relational databases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label non-relational databases. Show all posts

Friday, September 23, 2011

Big Data Glossary - O'Reilly Media

Big Data Glossary - O'Reilly Mediay

The TOC:
  1. Terms
  2. NoSQL Databases (read on 2011-09-25)
  3. MapReduce
  4. Storage
  5. Servers
  6. Processing
  7. NLP
  8. Machine Learning
  9. Visualization
  10. Acquisition
  11. Serialization


Quotes from the book:

… NoSQL. It’s a bit misleading, though, since almost every produc- tion environment that they’re used in also has an SQL-based database for anything that requires flexible queries and reliable transactions, and as the products mature, it’s likely that some of them will start supporting the language (i.e. SQL) as an option. If “NoSQL” seems too combative, think of it as “NotOnlySQL.” …

MongoDB - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

MongoDB - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "MongoDB (from "humongous") is an open source, high-performance, schema-free, document-oriented database written in the C++ programming language.[1] The database is document-oriented so it manages collections of JSON-like documents. Many applications can thus model data in a more natural way, as data can be nested in complex hierarchies and still be query-able and indexable."

MongoDB and Python - O'Reilly Media

MongoDB and Python - O'Reilly Media