Analyzing the Four Basic Categories of NoSQL Databases

This essay provides an overview of the four basic categories of NoSQL databases: key-value stores, document stores, column stores, and graph databases. It discusses the key characteristics of each category, including their data models, storage mechanisms, and query languages. Key-value stores, exemplified by Riak and Amazon S3, utilize a schema-less format with keys and buckets for data storage. Document stores, such as Apache CouchDB, store data in key-value pairs with structured documents. Column stores, like HBase and Cassandra, organize data into columns for faster search and aggregation. Graph databases, such as Neo4J, use nodes and edges to represent data relationships. The essay highlights the differences between these categories, emphasizing their strengths and use cases in various applications. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering study tools and resources for students.

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1. List and discuss four basic categories of NoSQL databases
There are four basic categories of NoSQL databases which are categorized as shown:
Key value store–It consisted of big hash table of keys as well as standards.
Document based store- It is stored of documents which are completed up of tagged
basics.
Column based store- Each of the storage space block is contained data as of one
column.
Graph based – The network database is used boundaries as well as nodes for
representing as well as storing of data (Eshtay, Sleit, &Aldwairi, 2019).
2. Difference between categories and provide examples
Key value store NoSQL database: The examples of this NoSQL database are Riak
and Amazon S3. The schema less format of this input value database such as Riak is
required for storage requirements.The key values are used hash table anywhere there is
existence of exclusive key as well as indicator to specific piece of data. The bucket is
such logical group of keys excluding they are not actually grouping the data (Chen&Lee,
2019). In order to interpret a value, there is required to identify key as well as bucket as
real key is hash (key + bucket).
Document store NoSQL database: This type of data is such a compilation of key
value pairs which are consisted document store as same as key value store. The
differentiation is that the ethics are recorded and provided structure as well as encoded
managed data. Apache as well as CouchDB are examples of the document store.
JavaScript is such a query language by means of MapReduce as well as HTTP. The

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document style databases are schema less which can make added fields to the documents
as a proper task with no such defined changes first.
Column store NoSQL database: Into the column oriented NoSQL database, the data
are being recorded into cells grouped into columns of data in place to rows of data. The
columns are being set into column families. It contains unrestricted digit of columns
which can create at the runtime as well as description of schema. Read as well as write is
done by means of columns rather than the rows (Atzeni et al., 2016). The examples of
column store NoSQL database is HBase and Cassandra. Relational DBMS is stored into
rows, the benefit of this type of storing into columns is faster search as well as access plus
data aggregation.
Graph based NoSQL database: By this nature of NoSQL database, there is no finding
of rigid arrangement of SQL as well as tables in addition to also columns representations.
There is proper representation of the data by means of address of scalability concerns.
The graphs are used into edges and nodes which can offer index free adjacency. The data
are being transformed from one of the model to other by means of Graph Base NoSQL
database. The example is Neo4J. By means of edges as well as nodes, there is storage of
data (Vera, et al., 2015). The nodes are prepared by relations with an additional that is
being presented by edges among the nodes. Both the nodes along with relations consisted
defined possessions.

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