Why NoSQL?

Keynote for WindyCityDB 2010. My thoughts on why NoSQL is taking off the way it is.

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   John Nunemaker
   WindyCityDB
   June 26, 2010
   Why
   Is NoSQL So Darn Popular?
   

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2. Present
   Future
   Past
   

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3. Present
   Future
   Past
   

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4. 1960s
   Linked Pointers
   

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5. IDS
   Integrated Data Store
   

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6. IMS
   Information Management System
   

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7. 1970s
   Relational Birth
   

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8. Edgar Codd
   Relational Daddy
   

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9. System R
   SEQUEL
   

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10. Ingres
    Berkeley
    

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11. Oracle
    Not of the Matrix kind
    

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13. 1980s
    Relational Boom
    

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15. Reliability and Speed
    The Invention of Indexing
    

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16. Flexibility Struggles
    Medicine, Physics, etc.
    

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17. 1990s - 2000s
    WWW and Client/Server
    

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18. Present
    Future
    Past
    

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19. What changed between
    the past and the present?
    

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20. The Web
    Image Credit: http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/images/the-web.png
    

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21. NoSQL
    Not Only SQL
    

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22. The movement defined
    by what it is not.
    

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23. So what is it?
    

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24. Development
    Friendly
    

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25. How do we store?
    Moving from...
    

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27. How do we use?
    Moving to...
    

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28. {
    id : 3,
    user_id : 25,
    line_items: [
    { sku : '123', price: 1000,
    name : 'Nunemaker Autograph'},
    { sku : '124', price: 1000,
    name : 'Banker Autograph'},
    ],
    shipping_address: {
    street : '123 Some St.',
    city : 'South Bend',
    state : 'IN',
    zip : '11216'
    },
    subtotal : 2000,
    tax : 140,
    total : 2140
    }
    

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29. Operations
    Friendly
    

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30. instead of
    

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31. Eventual Consistency
    

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32. Single Item Transactions
    

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33. Friends
    Galore!
    

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35. Key/Value
    Fast and Simple
    

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40. Eventually Consistent
    Key/Value
    

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44. Document
    Rich Data Models
    

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47. Relational
    Normalized and Solid
    

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50. Present
    Future
    Past
    

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51. Polyglot Persistence
    The future is
    

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53. “
    The Paradox of Choice
    Faced with one attractive option,
    two-thirds of people are willing
    to go for it. But faced with two
    attractive options, only slightly
    more than half are willing to buy.
    

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54. What if there are two
    attractive options and
    you have two choices?
    

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55. Hosted
    The future is
    

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62. Bright
    The future is
    

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63. Don’t get to know a database,
    get to know several.
    

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    Thank you!
    john@orderedlist.com
    John Nunemaker
    WindyCityDB
    June 26, 2010
    @jnunemaker
    

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