Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Introduction and Overview
1.2 Uncovered Topics
2 The NoSQL-Movement
2.1 Motives and Main Drivers
2.2 Criticism
2.3 Classifications and Comparisons of NoSQL Databases
3 Basic Concepts, Techniques and Patterns
3.1 Consistency
3.2 Partitioning
3.3 Storage Layout
3.4 Query Models
3.5 Distributed Data Processing via MapReduce
4 Key-/Value-Stores
4.1 Amazon’s Dynamo
4.2 Project Voldemort
4.3 Other Key-/Value-Stores
5 Document Databases
5.1 Apache CouchDB
5.2 MongoDB
6 Column-Oriented Databases
6.1 Google’s Bigtable
6.2 Bigtable Derivatives
6.3 Cassandra
7 Conclusion
A Further Reading, Listening and Watching
B List of abbreviations
C Bibliography
