Tech - NOSQL Tutorial - Part 2 (Overview)
I started looking at various NOSQL databases like Hbase, CouchDB and MongoDB. I finally settled on MongoDB, mainly because it was easy to setup in Windows. The name Mongo is derived from 'humongous', interesting name! For more details, you can refer - http://www.mongodb.org . As it says on the website, it is very easy to setup and highly scalable. Here are my first set of statistics - Time to download the software (64 bit edition) - 2 minutes Time to setup the database - 2 minutes Time to get the database up and running - 1 minute And, this is where I found the database to be refreshing. It is quick, even to setup, leave alone processing of data! Overall, I found these to be key features of this database - Light foorprint. Easy to setup either single or replicated instances and to administer. Schema-free data storage. In other words, there is no need to define any data structure. Incredibly quick for reads and writes. Map Reduce (with Javascript). Very