TO SQL
OR
TO NoSQL
This is the question!
Facts
Eric Schmidt
Every 2 Days We Create As Much Information As We Did Up To 2003
executive chairman of Alphabet Inc
By better integrating big data analytics into healthcare, the industry could save $300bn a year
Management consulting
Why NoSQL?
schema-less
Horizontal Scaling
Performance improves linearly with cost, not exponentially
Take great advantage of environments like Amazon EC2, EBS
Source: IBM Cloudant
MapReduce
Low Latency
Source: jaxenter.com
High availability
SimpleDB, Hadoop/HBase and Cassandra.
37% of Internet Traffic
Chaos monkey
Drawbacks
- You will need to rewrite some code and probably re-architect parts of the application.
- You will need to develop new tools and processes
Why No SQL?
Schema!
Scale up!
Indexing
Licensing!