For almost three decades or so, the world of Database Management was ruled by the relational database model or RDBMS. But in today’s times, a major chunk of the mindshare has been gained by an alternative database management model called as NoSQL or the non-relational cloud. This new NoSQL approach is fast proving to be extremely advantageous over its earlier counterpart by allowing the user new levels of application scalability. It is designed in a manner so that it can derive benefits from the new nodes through transparent expansion. Also, the commodity hardware is quite reasonably priced.
Owing to the massive increase in data volumes as well as transaction costs, NoSQL has come up as a boon for the developers as it can easily handle extremely large data volumes. Another relief that NoSQL allows you to have is to bid goodbye to your DBAs. This is because the new DBMS is associated with benefits like simpler data models and automatic repair which brings down the tuning and administrative requirements.
The NoSQL Databases listed in post primarily come under following categories.
- Document-oriented databases
- Key-value store databases
- Graph databases
- Object databases
Here is a list of some of the most popular and widely used NoSQL databases: