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NoSQL: Death to Relational Databases

Talkat RubyConf 2009 · 2009-11-19..11-21· [databases, ruby]
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Argues that NoSQL isn’t a slogan but tradeoffs: shows memory-bound Redis crash from a Rails Rumble deployment, demonstrates Cassandra’s eventual consistency and quorum reads, compares CouchDB (HTTP JSON views, no partial updates) with MongoDB (documents, easy updates) and Tokyo Cabinet’s toolchain, models comic-book and Avengers data in column, document and key stores, and builds a Neo4j graph for relationship queries to show graph shortest-path fast and when each system actually simplifies or complicates work.

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  1. 0:00Start
  2. 1:34Motivations
  3. 9:56Taxonomy
  4. 10:20Key-Value Stores
  5. 11:35Column-Oriented Stores
  6. 13:00Document-Oriented Stores
  7. 14:27Graph Databases
  8. 14:48graph theory
  9. 16:47Performance
  10. 18:02Scalability
  11. 19:12Flexibility
  12. 20:45Domain Complexity
  13. 24:29Data Types strings tables!
  14. 29:58Web-Inspired JSON storage HTTP/RESTful interface
  15. 32:55Storage binary JSON documents
  16. 33:28Queries dynamic index-based
  17. 38:19Simulations
  18. 39:00Lack of Structure
  19. 40:27Logging
  20. 40:38Hybrid Domains
  21. 41:29different scales
  22. 42:01Next Steps
  23. 42:48Ignore the Database
  24. 43:10Change the Default
  25. 43:40Application Templates start with something new
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