The CIOs Guide to NoSQL

The CIOs Guide to NoSQL

Co-authored with Dan McCreary. NoSQL is a new and fast-growing category of data management technologies that uses non-relational database architectures (hence NoSQL, or Not-Only SQL). NoSQL is not the best solution for every data management requirement, however it is often better suited to handle the requirements of high-performance, web-scalable systems and big data analysis. Organizations like Facebook, Twitter, Netflix and Yahoo are notable examples of innovators which have used NoSQL solutions to gain greater scale and performance, and at a fraction of the cost of traditional relational database systems.