Understanding NoSQL

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

What is NoSQL?		00:26:49
Introduction		09:45
Consistency, indexes		08:34
Queries, MapReduce, sharding		08:30
NoSQL Technology Breakdown		00:31:57
Introduction, Key-Value Stores		07:23
Document Stores		05:37
Demo: CouchDB		12:06
Wide Column Stores		04:17
Graph Databases		02:34
Where is NoSQL a Killer App?		00:13:21
Intro and content management		03:42
Product catalogs and social		03:34
Big Data, miscellaneous		06:05
What Good is Relational?		00:14:59
Intro and transactional scenarios		04:16
Necessity of formal schema, line of business scenarios		04:45
Importance of declarative query		03:37
Banded reporting		02:21
NoSQL and Microsoft		00:52:26
Intro, Azure Table Storage, XML columns		06:52
SQL Azure Federations		08:12
Demo: SQL Azure Federations		08:53
OData, MongoDB on Azure, Hadoop on Azure		09:10
Demo: Hadoop On Azure		12:16
SQL Server 'Beyond Relational' and Parallel Data Warehouse		07:03
NoSQL, Relational, or Both?		00:21:12
Intro, using type of app as a selection criterion		05:54
Using productivity as a selection criterion		04:51
Using skill sets and investment as selection criteria		05:46
Summarized recommendations		04:41