Why Is NoSQL So Darn Popular?

Why Is NoSQL So Darn Popular? WindyCityDB John Nunemaker June 26, 2010 Ordered List

Past Present Future

1960s Linked Pointers

IDS Integrated Data Store

IMS Information Management System

1970s Relational Birth

Edgar Codd Relational Daddy

System R SEQUEL

Ingres Berkeley

Oracle Not of the Matrix kind

1980s Relational Boom

Reliability and Speed The Invention of Indexing

Flexibility Struggles Medicine, Physics, etc.

1990s - 2000s WWW and Client/Server

Past Present Future

What changed between the past and the present?

The Web Image Credit: http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/images/the-web.png

NoSQL Not Only SQL

The movement deﬁned by what it is not.

So what is it?

Development Friendly

Moving from... How do we store?

Moving to... How do we use?

{ id : 3, user_id : 25, line_items: [ { sku : '123', price: 1000, name : 'Nunemaker Autograph'}, { sku : '124', price: 1000, name : 'Banker Autograph'}, ], shipping_address: { street : '123 Some St.', city : 'South Bend', state : 'IN', zip : '11216' }, subtotal : 2000, tax : 140, total : 2140 }

Operations Friendly

instead of

Eventual Consistency

Single Item Transactions

Friends Galore!

Key/Value Fast and Simple

Eventually Consistent Key/Value

Document Rich Data Models

Relational Normalized and Solid

Past Present Future

The future is Polyglot Persistence

“ Faced with one attractive option, two-thirds of people are willing to go for it. But faced with two attractive options, only slightly more than half are willing to buy. The Paradox of Choice

What if there are two attractive options and you have two choices?

The future is Hosted

The future is Bright

Don’t get to know a database, get to know several.

Thank you! john@orderedlist.com @jnunemaker WindyCityDB John Nunemaker June 26, 2010 Ordered List

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