Ordered ListJohn NunemakerWindyCityDB

June 26, 2010

WhyIs NoSQL So Darn Popular?

PresentFuture

Past

PresentFuture

Past

1960sLinked Pointers

IDSIntegrated Data Store

IMSInformation Management System

1970sRelational Birth

Edgar CoddRelational Daddy

System RSEQUEL

IngresBerkeley

OracleNot of the Matrix kind

1980sRelational Boom

Reliability and SpeedThe Invention of Indexing

Flexibility StrugglesMedicine, Physics, etc.

1990s - 2000sWWW and Client/Server

PresentFuture

Past

What changed between the past and the present?

The Web

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

NoSQLNot Only SQL

The movement defined by what it is not.

So what is it?

DevelopmentFriendly

How do we store?Moving from...

How do we use?Moving to...

{ 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}

OperationsFriendly

instead of

Eventual Consistency

Single Item Transactions

FriendsGalore!

Key/ValueFast and Simple

Eventually ConsistentKey/Value

DocumentRich Data Models

RelationalNormalized and Solid

PresentFuture

Past

Polyglot PersistenceThe future is

“The Paradox of Choice

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.

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

HostedThe future is

BrightThe future is

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

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Thank you!john@orderedlist.com

John NunemakerWindyCityDBJune 26, 2010

@jnunemaker