Today’s consumers constantly demand faster and smoother digital experiences. In response, more and more companies are moving from SQL Server and other relational databases to NoSQL to power their critical web, mobile, and IoT applications. Many are choosing Couchbase Server for easier scalability, better performance, and greater agility at up to 40x lower cost.
This white paper describes the advantages of NoSQL, clarifies the important difference between SQL and NoSQL databases, and walks you through:
- Identifying the right application for your first NoSQL project
- Approaches to generating primary keys
- Examples of modeling relational data as documents
- Options for performing reads and writes, queries, and aggregation
- Requirements for a successful proof of concept
- Tips for migrating from relational databases