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Why and Where for MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB, HBase, Membase, Redis

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More and more people are starting to use NoSQL. I think this is extremely good. NoSQL can make our life better in a lot of situations. In this post I will try make a list of current NoSQL solutions that exist on the market and when we should use each other.

MongoDB
Why
  • Dynamic query
  • Content is stored as documents
  • Big database that need to be very fast
Where
  • Properties are stored like query and index
  • Can be used for voting system, CMS or comment storage

Cassandra
Why
  • When you make a lot of updates and insert
  • Reading data is not the main scope of the database (writes are faster than reads)
  • Content is stored as column
  • High availability
Where
  • Can be used with success for logging
  • Financial industry or any place where we work with a lot of data that is needed to be written
  • Basket of an e-commerce application


CouchDB
Why
  • For data that don’t change very often (insert and read and NOT update)
  • We have a lot of predefined queries and we need versioning support
Where
  • Is a great database for CMS and CRM.

HBase
Why
  • When you do data analyzing
Where
  • Works great in combination with Hadoop

Membase
Why
  • When we need high concurrency
  • When the latency is very low and we want the latency to be minimal
Where
  • Backend of a game or a system that offer data in real time

Redis
Why
  • When we need to make a lot of updates
  • When the database is not too big and can be kept in memory
Where
  • Can be used when we have a real time communication, for example a stock market with prices
If you know other NoSQL solutions or other strong points for this frameworks, please tell me.
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  1. NavaNovember 19, 2012 at 8:27 AM

    Nice...(1 word bez i want my comment also shorter and crisp like your post)

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