MongoDB

NoSql, MongoDB and its future in IT

Monday, Mar 29, 2010
Recently I have been reading a lot more about NoSQL databases, specifically MongoDB and CouchDB, ad how 2010 will be the year of NoSql. NoSql databases themselves move away from the structure of a relational database, mssql/mysql, and move more toward storing all of their data in views, which can contain a range of information. Why NoSql? Well NoSql’s inherant lack of rigid structure enables it to be far more flexible with regards to the data that you can insert. In terms of visualising relational database, they regularly can be seen as a set of tables, which are linked together, but with a set amount of columns. NoSql database on the other hand award for more flexibility almost handling each data set as an array. Therefore each item in the database can, if required, have different data sets assigned to it. ...