The document is a glossary guide to No-SQL databases, emphasizing their non-relational nature and lack of fixed schema. It critiques traditional SQL methods and highlights features like map-reduce, table scans, and the benefits of schema-free structures. Notable quotes from industry experts illustrate the document's stance on the limitations of conventional database systems.

1. Your Guide to No-SQL
(Glossary)

2. “non-relational data
stores that do not need
a fixed schema, and
that usually avoid join
operations”
(Wikipedia, how much more authoritative do you
need)

3. GROUP BY ?

4. Map Reduce

5. Joins?

6. Multiple++ Map Reduce

7. Table Scan?

8. Multi-Machine Map
Reduce

9. ORDER BY…LIMIT

10. Natural Data Order

11. Map Reduce

12. What about the
Features?

13. Forward Rolling Log?

14. No need for aVacuum

15. “Re-inventing MyISAM
is not a selling point.”
-Mark Callaghan Oracle, Google, Facebook

16. Non-Transactional?

18. Schema Free!

20. I know where
everything is, please do
not touch.

21. SQL Sucks!

23. 6% of the power on the planet goes to data
centers!