{"slug": "erictleung--awesome-nosql-guides", "title": "Nosql Guides", "description": ":computer: Curated list of awesome resources and links about using NoSQL databases", "github_url": "https://github.com/erictleung/awesome-nosql-guides", "stars": "184", "tag": "Databases", "entry_count": 53, "subcategory_count": 1, "subcategories": [{"name": "General", "parent": "", "entries": [{"name": "Overview of NoSQL", "url": "#overview-of-nosql", "description": ""}, {"name": "Data Structures and Modeling", "url": "#data-structures-and-modeling", "description": ""}, {"name": "Trade-Offs in CAP/Brewer's Theorem", "url": "#trade-offs-in-capbrewers-theorem", "description": ""}, {"name": "Crowd-Sourced Information", "url": "#crowd-sourced-information", "description": ""}, {"name": "Graph Databases", "url": "#graph-databases", "description": ""}, {"name": "Criticisms and Debates", "url": "#criticisms-and-debates", "description": ""}, {"name": "Miscellaneous", "url": "#miscellaneous", "description": ""}, {"name": "Introduction To NoSQL - Martin Fowler (54:52)", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI_g07C_Q5I", "description": "Talk given at GOTO 2012 as a great introduction to NoSQL databases, the types of NoSQL databases, their history, pros and cons, and how and when to use them."}, {"name": "NoSQL Distilled", "url": "https://martinfowler.com/books/nosql.html", "description": "Very digestable and affordable book describing the different NoSQL databases and help you make the decision on whether using a NoSQL database is appropriate for your project."}, {"name": "Seven Databases in Song (1:43)", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyx8iP5tfCI", "description": "Fun song from 2012 about seven (six are NoSQL) databases with a very condensed overview of how they each work."}, {"name": "NoSQL Databases: a Survey and Decision Guidance (2016)", "url": "https://medium.baqend.com/nosql-databases-a-survey-and-decision-guidance-ea7823a822d", "description": "\"This NoSQL Toolbox allows us to derive a simple decision tree to help practitioners and researchers filter potential system candidates based on central application requirements\"."}, {"name": "Data Management in the Cloud: Limitations and Opportunities (PDF)", "url": "http://www.cs.umd.edu/\\~abadi/papers/abadi-cloud-ieee09.pdf", "description": "Abadi (2009) discusses limitations and opportunities of data management and data analysis in the cloud."}, {"name": "10 NoSQL Misconceptions", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210701080816/https://www.dummies.com/programming/big-data/10-nosql-misconceptions/", "description": "Some misconceptions about NoSQL databases relating to topics such as what they are, ACID-compliance, and security."}, {"name": "10 Reasons Developers Love NoSQL", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210701080841/https://www.dummies.com/programming/big-data/10-reasons-developers-love-nosql/", "description": "A list of ten arguments for why developers like to use NoSQL databases."}, {"name": "Distribution, Data, Deployment: Software Architecture Convergence in Big Data Systems (PDF)", "url": "https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?assetID=90909", "description": "Gorton and Klein (2014) paper to discuss software engineering concerns when dealing with big data systems in terms of distribution, data, and deployment. Also accessible [here](https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2014.51)."}, {"name": "Use cases for NoSQL (2017)", "url": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2875432/use-cases-for-nosql", "description": "Discussion on Stack Overflow on best use cases for using NoSQL databases over traditional SQL databases."}, {"name": "Five Common Data Stores and When to Use Them (2019)", "url": "https://shopify.engineering/five-common-data-stores-usage", "description": "Article describes five common data stores (relational database, non-relational (\u201cNoSQL\u201d) database, key-value store, full-text search engine, message queue) and their attributes."}, {"name": "NoSQL Databases (PDF)", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20190927222738/https://www.christof-strauch.de/nosqldbs.pdf", "description": "A 149-page document outlining motives and rationale for NoSQL databases, and common concepts, techniques and patterns among these databases; last updated around 2011."}, {"name": "NoSQL Data Architecture & Data Governance: Everything You Need to Know (2018)", "url": "https://www.dataversity.net/nosql-data-architecture-data-governance-everything-need-know/", "description": "Overview of different NoSQL database architectures with diagrams."}, {"name": "NoSQL vs SQL: Demystifying NoSQL Databases (2019)", "url": "https://build5nines.com/nosql-vs-sql-demystifying-nosql-databases/", "description": "General overview and examples of NoSQL database schema types, while covering CAP theorem tradeoffs."}, {"name": "Comparing Database Types: How Database Types Evolved to Meet Different Needs", "url": "https://www.prisma.io/dataguide/intro/comparing-database-types", "description": "Good overview of databases in general and how NoSQL database types differ and can be useful."}, {"name": "The NoSQL Ecosystem", "url": "https://www.aosabook.org/en/nosql.html", "description": "A chapter written by Adam Marcus from \"The Architecture of Open Source Applications\" book, this chapter is geared more towards systems architects needing to learn more in-depth understanding of how these systems are built."}, {"name": "What is NoSQL - Amazon AWS", "url": "https://aws.amazon.com/nosql/", "description": "Great high-level overview of NoSQL databases and how they compare to SQL database technologies and terminologies.  Serves as landing page for Amazon's AWS services for NoSQL options of key-value (Amazon DynamoDB), document (Amazon DocumentDB), graph (Amazon Neptune), in-memory (Amazon ElastiCache), and search-engine (Amazon Elasticsearch) database."}, {"name": "NoSQL vs. SQL: Important Differences & Which One Is Best for Your Project (2021) - Upwork", "url": "https://www.upwork.com/resources/nosql-vs-sql", "description": "Explanation comparing SQL and NoSQL databases, along with giving some advice on what database solution is right for your use case."}, {"name": "NoSQL Database Tutorial \u2013 Full Course for Beginners (2:54:52)", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh4gy1lbL2k", "description": "Ania Kubow reviews the four types of NoSQL databases and provides two hands-on projects to experiment with what was reviewed."}, {"name": "Structure Your Database", "url": "https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/android/structure-data", "description": "Best practices (as of 2018) of structuring your data if your database uses JSON."}, {"name": "NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques (2012)", "url": "https://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/nosql-data-modeling-techniques/", "description": "This article provides a short comparison of NoSQL system families from the data modeling point of view and digests several common modeling techniques."}, {"name": "Data Models For MongoDB", "url": "https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/data-modeling/", "description": "Data modeling help specific to MongoDB, ranging from schema validation and example patterns. However, concepts may carry over to other document NoSQL databases."}, {"name": "Data Models Will Be Beautiful Again (2016)", "url": "https://tdwi.org/articles/2016/11/22/data-models-will-be-beautiful-again.aspx", "description": "Essay argues that despite existing schema-less databases, thoughtful database modeling is important to gain knowledge and insights using algorithms."}, {"name": "Unified Data Modeling for Relational and NoSQL Databases", "url": "https://www.infoq.com/articles/unified-data-modeling-for-relational-and-nosql-databases/", "description": "Solution for managing both NoSQL and relational databases using the Unified Data Modeling technique."}, {"name": "Unifying Relational, Document, Graph, and Temporal Data Models", "url": "https://fauna.com/blog/unifying-relational-document-graph-and-temporal-data-models", "description": "Patterns for querying across multiple paradigms in the same database."}, {"name": "How To Design Schema For Your NoSQL Database?", "url": "https://www.dataversity.net/how-to-design-schema-for-your-nosql-database/#", "description": "Despite popular belief that NoSQL are schema-less, this article outlines how NoSQL databases follow \"query driven design\" and considerations for this flexibility in schema."}, {"name": "Best Practices for NoSQL Database Design (2012)", "url": "https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/158790/", "description": "A couple answers and links for NoSQL database design."}, {"name": "Visual Guide To NoSQL Systems (2010)", "url": "http://blog.nahurst.com/visual-guide-to-nosql-systems", "description": "Visual display of trade-offs in the CAP theorem among different NoSQL databases."}, {"name": "How to Choose The Right NoSQL Database For Your Application? (2018)", "url": "https://www.dataversity.net/choose-right-nosql-database-application/", "description": "Reviews CAP theorem and maps common NoSQL databases to CAP categories to help choose one."}, {"name": "/r/nosql", "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/nosql/", "description": "Reddit page on NoSQL on general questions and discussions people may have about NoSQL databases."}, {"name": "\\[nosql\\] Tag On Stack Overflow", "url": "https://stackoverflow.com/tags/nosql/info", "description": ""}, {"name": "Ask HN: Learning NoSQL, Papers and Books (2017)", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15427932", "description": "\"In your opinion, which papers and books are mandatory to really understand NoSQL subject?\""}, {"name": "Difference Between Scaling Horizontally And Vertically For Databases", "url": "https://stackoverflow.com/q/11707879/6873133", "description": "Common terms talked about in the database world and here are answers from others."}, {"name": "NoSQL - Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL", "description": "Wikipedia entry on all things NoSQL databases."}, {"name": "Graph Databases Use Cases", "url": "https://neo4j.com/use-cases/", "description": "Although documents geared towards Neo4j, concepts are applicable to all graph databases."}, {"name": "How The ICIJ Used Neo4j To Unravel The Panama Papers - Mar Cabra (32:02)", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S20XMQyvANY", "description": "Learn how graph databases were key to explore who were the main names connected to companies in tax havens, including 140 politicians in more than 50 countries."}, {"name": "Graph Databases For Beginners: The Basics Of Data Modeling", "url": "https://neo4j.com/blog/data-modeling-basics/", "description": "Discusses the basics of modeling your data and which approach you should take."}, {"name": "Graph Data Modeling Guidelines", "url": "https://neo4j.com/developer/guide-data-modeling/", "description": "Directly related to Neo4j, but possibly applicable to any graph database."}, {"name": "Graph Data Modeling Visualize Structure and Meaning", "url": "http://www.graphdatamodeling.com", "description": "Brief introduction to graph data modeling and is an introduction to the book \"Graph Data Modeling for NoSQL and SQL\" by Thomas Frisendal."}, {"name": "Addressing the NoSQL Criticism (2011)", "url": "https://www.bradley-holt.com/2011/07/addressing-the-nosql-criticism/", "description": "Argues against nine criticisms to NoSQL databases as they apply to CouchDB, but may apply to others as well."}, {"name": "Thank You For Your Help NoSQL, But We Got It From Here (2020)", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200913032621/https://www.memsql.com/blog/why-nosql-databases-wrong-tool-for-modern-application/", "description": "Argument that NoSQL databases have pushed the evolution of databases given the problem of scaling, but now NewSQL has addressed those concerns (from the perspective of MemSQL)."}, {"name": "The Five Stages Of NoSQL (2016)", "url": "https://sookocheff.com/post/opinion/the-five-stages-of-nosql/", "description": "Stages of going through picking and using a NoSQL database mirroring the five stages of grief."}, {"name": "The Biggest Challenges Of Moving To NoSQL (2017)", "url": "https://dzone.com/articles/the-biggest-challenges-of-moving-to-nosql", "description": "Speed and scalability and developer joy have been the gains found from enduring through challenges of moving to NoSQL."}, {"name": "What As A NoSQL Database? Learn By Writing One In Python", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201109032031/https://jeffknupp.com/blog/2014/09/01/what-is-a-nosql-database-learn-by-writing-one-in-python/", "description": "Excellent tutorial in learning NoSQL vs RDBMS through building a toy database using Python."}, {"name": "Dynamo Vs Cassandra : Systems Design Of NoSQL Databases", "url": "https://sujithjay.com/data-systems/dynamo-cassandra/", "description": "Blog post comparing and constrating system designs of two well known NoSQL databases."}, {"name": "Why You Should Build Your Wwn NoSQL Database", "url": "https://medium.com/@marceloboeira/why-you-should-build-your-own-nosql-database-9bbba42039f5", "description": "Brief overview of NoSQL databases and the spectrum of schema, along with a very basic implementation of a NoSQL database using the Crystal programming language."}, {"name": "PostgreSQL, The NoSQL Database (2015)", "url": "https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/postgresql-nosql-database", "description": "An argument for PostgreSQL being an alternative to NoSQL databases with NoSQL-like features using its new features like HStore (key-value store) and JSONB (document-based) as of Version 9.4."}]}], "name": ""}