Understanding NoSQL

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Course Summary

A primer on NoSQL and how it compares to relational database technology

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Course Description

A discussion of NoSQL's general characteristics, an investigation of the four major NoSQL subcategories, a review of when NoSQL and relational technology work best, a review of NoSQL technologies in the Microsoft stack and recommendations on NoSQL adoption

Course Description

A discussion of NoSQL's general characteristics, an investigation of the four major NoSQL subcategories, a review of when NoSQL and relational technology work best, a review of NoSQL technologies in the Microsoft stack and recommendations on NoSQL adoption

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Course Syllabus

What is NoSQL?
- 26m 49s

—Introduction 9m 45s
—Consistency, indexes 8m 34s
—Queries, MapReduce, sharding 8m 30s

NoSQL Technology Breakdown
- 31m 57s

—Introduction, Key-Value Stores 7m 23s
—Document Stores 5m 37s
—Demo: CouchDB 12m 6s
—Wide Column Stores 4m 17s
—Graph Databases 2m 34s

Where is NoSQL a Killer App?
- 13m 21s

—Intro and content management 3m 42s
—Product catalogs and social 3m 34s
—Big Data, miscellaneous 6m 5s

What Good is Relational?
- 14m 59s

—Intro and transactional scenarios 4m 16s
—Necessity of formal schema, line of business scenarios 4m 45s
—Importance of declarative query 3m 37s
—Banded reporting 2m 21s

NoSQL and Microsoft
- 52m 26s

—Intro, Azure Table Storage, XML columns 6m 52s
—SQL Azure Federations 8m 12s
—Demo: SQL Azure Federations 8m 53s
—OData, MongoDB on Azure, Hadoop on Azure 9m 10s
—Demo: Hadoop On Azure 12m 16s
—SQL Server 'Beyond Relational' and Parallel Data Warehouse 7m 3s

NoSQL, Relational, or Both?
- 21m 12s

—Intro, using type of app as a selection criterion 5m 54s
—Using productivity as a selection criterion 4m 51s
—Using skill sets and investment as selection criteria 5m 46s
—Summarized recommendations 4m 41s

Course Fee:

USD 29

Course Type:	Self-Study
Course Status:	Active
Workload:	1 - 4 hours / week

This course is listed under Open Source , Development & Implementations , Industry Specific Applications , Data & Information Management and Server & Storage Management Community