Software Architecture

NoSQL Databases

Jeisson Andrés Vergara Vargas

Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas e Industrial
http://colswe.unal.edu.co/~javergarav/
javergarav@unal.edu.co

2020-I
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Relational Databases
RDBMS Paradigm

• ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability). ACID compliant!

• SQL
• MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, PostreSQL, …

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Key-value Stores
NoSQL Database Paradigm

• One key, one value, no duplicates and so fast.

• It is a hash.
• The DB does not understand it and does not want to understand it.
• Amazon Dynamo, Redis, MemcacheDB, ...

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Document-Oriented Databases
NoSQL Database Paradigm

• Key-value store, but the value is (usually) structured and “understood” by the DB.
• Querying data is possible (by other means than just a key).
• MongoDB, CouchDB, …

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Wide Column Databases

NoSQL Database Paradigm

• Often referred as “BigTable clones”.

• A sparse, distributed multi-dimensional sorted map.
• Google BigTable, Cassandra, …

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Graph Databases
NoSQL Database Paradigm

• “Relation database is a collection loosely connected tables” whereas “Graph data-base is a multi-
relational graph”.
• Neo4j, InfoGrid, ...

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NoSQL

• Relational databases have scalability issues.

• Relational databases do not represent intuitively hierarchical and complex data structures.
• The NoSQL databases do not use predefined schemes, such as tables in relational models.

NoSQL = Not only SQL

CAP Theorem

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RDBMS vs. NoSQL

RDBMS NoSQL
(Relational Database Management System) (Not only SQL)

Strong consistency Eventual consistency

Big datasets Huge datasets
Scaling is possible Scaling is easy
SQL Map-Reduce
Good availability Very high availability

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References

• [STRAUCH] C. Strauch, “NoSQL Databases,” Lect. Notes Stuttgart Media, 2010.

• H. Kauhanen, NoSQL databases.

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