Why NoSQL?

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

Transcript

1. Ordered List John Nunemaker WindyCityDB June 26, 2010 Why Is NoSQL So Darn Popular?
2. Present Future Past
3. Present Future Past
4. 1960s Linked Pointers
5. IDS Integrated Data Store
6. IMS Information Management System
7. 1970s Relational Birth
8. Edgar Codd Relational Daddy
9. System R SEQUEL
10. Ingres Berkeley
11. Oracle Not of the Matrix kind
13. 1980s Relational Boom
15. Reliability and Speed The Invention of Indexing
16. Flexibility Struggles Medicine, Physics, etc.
17. 1990s - 2000s WWW and Client/Server
18. Present Future Past
19. What changed between the past and the present?
20. The Web Image Credit: http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/images/the-web.png
21. NoSQL Not Only SQL
22. The movement defined by what it is not.
23. So what is it?
24. Development Friendly
25. How do we store? Moving from...
27. How do we use? Moving to...
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29. Operations Friendly
30. instead of
31. Eventual Consistency
32. Single Item Transactions
33. Friends Galore!
35. Key/Value Fast and Simple
40. Eventually Consistent Key/Value
44. Document Rich Data Models
47. Relational Normalized and Solid
50. Present Future Past
51. Polyglot Persistence The future is
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.
54. What if there are two attractive options and you have two choices?
55. Hosted The future is
62. Bright The future is
63. Don’t get to know a database, get to know several.
64. Ordered List Thank you! john@orderedlist.com John Nunemaker WindyCityDB June 26, 2010 @jnunemaker