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John Nunemaker
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December 30, 2010
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Why NoSQL?
Keynote for WindyCityDB 2010. My thoughts on why NoSQL is taking off the way it is.
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Transcript
Ordered List John Nunemaker WindyCityDB June 26, 2010 Why Is
NoSQL So Darn Popular?
Present Future Past
Present Future Past
1960s Linked Pointers
IDS Integrated Data Store
IMS Information Management System
1970s Relational Birth
Edgar Codd Relational Daddy
System R SEQUEL
Ingres Berkeley
Oracle Not of the Matrix kind
None
1980s Relational Boom
None
Reliability and Speed The Invention of Indexing
Flexibility Struggles Medicine, Physics, etc.
1990s - 2000s WWW and Client/Server
Present Future Past
What changed between the past and the present?
The Web Image Credit: http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/images/the-web.png
NoSQL Not Only SQL
The movement defined by what it is not.
So what is it?
Development Friendly
How do we store? Moving from...
None
How do we use? Moving to...
{ 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 }
Operations Friendly
instead of
Eventual Consistency
Single Item Transactions
Friends Galore!
None
Key/Value Fast and Simple
None
None
None
None
Eventually Consistent Key/Value
None
None
None
Document Rich Data Models
None
None
Relational Normalized and Solid
None
None
Present Future Past
Polyglot Persistence The future is
None
“ 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.
What if there are two attractive options and you have
two choices?
Hosted The future is
None
None
None
None
None
None
Bright The future is
Don’t get to know a database, get to know several.
Ordered List Thank you!
[email protected]
John Nunemaker WindyCityDB June 26,
2010 @jnunemaker