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NoSQL Databases

Explore the fundamentals of NoSQL databases, including their origin, common characteristics, and how they contrast with relational databases. Understand key features such as scalability, flexibility, and the lack of fixed schema to prepare for working with modern NoSQL systems.

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Introduction

The term NoSQL originated as a Twitter hashtag for a meet-up back in 2009. It is sometimes translated as an acronym for Not Only SQL, or short-hand for No SQL.

This term is pretty loose and is used to cover a wide range of databases that try to tackle problems that relational databases have with newer applications. These include:

  • Flexibility

  • Scalability

  • Performance

Nevertheless, in order to do so, these databases ...