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NoSQL data management systems
In the last decade, a new class of data management systems collectively called NoSQL systems emerged and are now intensively developed. The main feature of these systems is that they abandon the relational data model and the SQL, do not fully support ACID transactions, and use distributed architecture (even though there are non-distributed NoSQL systems as well). As a result, such systems outperform the conventional SQL-oriented DBMSs in some applications; in addition, such systems are highly scalable under increasing workloads and huge amounts of data, which is important, in particular, for Web applications. Unfortunately, the absence of transactional semantics imposes certain constraints on the class of applications where NoSQL systems can be effectively used and the choice of a particular system significantly depends on the application. In this paper, a review of the main classes of NoSQL data management systems is given and examples of systems and applications where they can be used are discussed.
Big data challenged traditional storage and analysis systems in several new ways. In this paper we try to figure out how to overcome this challenges, why it's not possible to make it efficiently and describe three modern approaches to big data handling: NoSQL, MapReduce and real-time stream processing. The first section of the paper is the introduction. The second section discuss main issues of Big Data: volume, diversity, velocity, and value. The third section describes different approaches to solving the problem of Big Data. Traditionally one might use a relational DBMS. The paper propose some steps that allow to continue RDBMS using when it’s capacity becomes not enough. Another way is to use a NoSQL approach. The basic ideas of the NoSQL approach are: simplification, high throughput, and unlimited scaling out. Different kinds of NoSQL stores allow to use such systems in different applications of Big Data. MapReduce and it’s free implementation Hadoop may be used to provide scaling out Big Data analytics. Finally, several data management products support real time stream processing under Big Data. The paper briefly overviews these products. The final section of the paper is the conclusion.
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