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Advanced queries in HBase
Given the following HBase schema scenario (from the official FAQ)...
How would you design an Hbase table
for many-to-many association between
two entities, for example Student and
Course?
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What nosql means? can someone explain it to me in simple words?
in this post Stack Overflow Architecture i read about something called nosql, i didn't understand what it means, and i tried to search on google but seams that i can't get exactly whats it.
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When shouldn't you use a relational database? [closed]
Apart from the google/bigtable scenario, when shouldn't you use a relational database? Why not, and what should you use? (did you learn 'the hard way'?)
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The Next-gen Databases [closed]
I'm learning traditional Relational Databases (with PostgreSQL) and doing some research I've come across some new types of databases. CouchDB, Drizzle, and Scalaris to name a few, what is going to be ...
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Good reasons NOT to use a relational database?
Can you please point to alternative data storage tools and give good reasons to use them instead of good-old relational databases? In my opinion, most applications rarely use the full power of SQL--it ...
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