As my frequent readers would have noticed already, I have been diving into NoSQL databases recently – in particular Document Databases. But why do we need NoSQL databases in the first place. Surely the relational databases we have been using work fine – in fact they work very well in most situations.
The problem with them is they don’t always scale very well – and when I mean scale, I mean scale really big – across multiple nodes in a cluster. I alluded to this in the first post in this series, but as an aside I have decided to explore why in further detail in this post.
Nov
17
2011