Hands-On NoSQL

Designed for database designers and software engineers who already know NoSQL and want to learn advanced design patterns, understand the performance implications of design choices, and gain knowledge about supporting large-scale NoSQL databases in production. This book combines detailed descriptions of design patterns and reasons for choosing them with case studies that highlight particular NoSQL databases. Design choices are discussed together with the impact of those choices on the kinds of features that are readily implemented and limitations those choices impose.

Readers will be attracted to this book for unique insights, advice, and technical examples not found anywhere else. This includes:

• A detailed description of NoSQL database models, discussion of design choices, and design patterns used by experienced NoSQL data modelers and architects
• Pragmatic advice on choosing among different types of NoSQL systems
• Actual code implementations, queries, and examples to help build understanding at a granular level of how to interact with the database in question
• Technical business cases, demonstrating how these NoSQL databases are actually being used and how to address the challenges of operating them in highly available, highly scalable production environments

This book provides the foundation for an online master class in NoSQL data modeling and is well suited for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in database design. It also provides deep dive examinations on several specialized forms of NoSQL querying and filtering. Hands-on NoSQL focuses on three NoSQL data models, specifically: when to use each type of database, the design benefits and disadvantages of each model, and advice on design patterns to use in each model.