Moving Towards Non-Relational Databases

Uma Bhat, Shraddha Jadhav
2010 International Journal of Computer Applications  
RDBMS has been around since long. It is the founder stone of many application stacks. It provides the users with the best mix of simplicity, robustness, flexibility, performance, scalability, and compatibility. However the emergence of the cloud centric application poses a set of challenges to the existing RDBMS Vendors. The RDBMS are not so suitable to cater to some of the critical requirement of these new generation applications such as handling large set of unstructured data or providing
more » ... tic scalability. This results in emergence of a new set of document centric or resource centric databases which are non-relational in nature. Promising non-relational solutions include CouchDB, SimpleDB etc. We have explored and conducted few experiments with some of such databases. In the current paper we would like to highlight the salient features of these databases. With the help of examples we would describe how these databases differ from the conventional relational databases. We would also discuss how they cater to the requirement of today's modern enterprise applications
doi:10.5120/284-446 fatcat:rjqbzpkukzd5bannqp344lczsq