Types of NoSQL databases
In this post, I am going to explain about types of NoSQL databases.
What is NoSQL
- NoSQL refers to 'Non SQL' or 'Non relational' databases.
- NoSQL databases are called as non-relational databases to store unstructured data without a schema.
History of NoSQL
- Initial days SQL databases are very famous.
- Initially they are saving object data into SQL databases by mapping object fields to SQL database table fields.
- Instead of mappings, they want to save direct objects into the database their NoSQL databases are coming.
- SQL databases are not much effective in a cluster environment as compared to NoSQL databases.
Types of NoSQL
- Key Value Database
- Document Database
- Graph Database
- Object Database
- Tabular Database
- Tuple Database
- Triple/Quad Database or RDF Database
- Hosted Database
- Multivalue Database
- Multimodel Database
- Wide column Database
- Time Series Database
Basic division of NoSQL
- Document Database
- Graph Database
- Key - Value Database
- Column - Family Database
Aggregate Databases
- An aggregate is a group or collection of data treated as a single unit.
- These units of aggregate data forms a database boundaries.
Key-Value store
- Database wich store Key and Value, here a key is String and Value is anything like String, Integer, Document, complex document, image, video ...
- Simply it's just HasMap but stores in a disk, instead of memory.
- It stores a collection of key-value pairs.
- We can also create indexes for key-value databases.
- It is Aggregated oriented Database
name : 'Trinix'
Document store
- Database which stores a whole mass of documents where each document is some complex data structure.
- Usually data structure is JSON, its language independent data structure.
- We can retrieve documents, update some portion of a document.
- It has no fixed schema like SQL table.
- It is Aggregated oriented Database
{
"user": {
"id": 102,
"name": "Trinix",
"info": {
"langs": [
{"java": "1.7", "exp": "6"},
{"ReactJS": "2", "exp": "1"}
]
}
}
}
Column-Family database
- Database which stores the string as key and value as multiple key-value rows.
- Column-Family database has a complex data model compare to remaining data models.
- Benefits is the retrieval of documents is very easy.
- It is Aggregated oriented Database
Graph Database
- This database very good at handling relationship between things.
- In this database we can optimize and make it fast on relationships of data.
- It is not aggregated oriented Database.
Note: We can see how these databases are working with examples in next post